Motivational Quotes

Work

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

10.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

12.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

13.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

15.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

16.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

17.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

18.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

19.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

22.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

24.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

25.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

26.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

27.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

28.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

29.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

31.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

32.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

33.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

34.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

37.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

38.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

39.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

40.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

41.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

42.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

43.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

45.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

46.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

50.

Inspiration comes of working every day.