Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

- Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Best Quotes about Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Rutte, Martin

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

10.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

11.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

12.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

13.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

14.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

15.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

16.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

17.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

19.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

20.

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

21.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

22.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

23.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

24.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

25.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

26.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

27.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

30.

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

31.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

32.

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

33.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

34.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

35.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

36.

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.

37.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

38.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

40.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

41.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

44.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

45.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

46.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

47.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

48.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

49.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

50.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi