Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

10.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

12.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

13.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

14.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

17.

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

LeMond, Greg

18.

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

Fox, Jim

19.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

20.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

22.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

23.

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

Marquis, Don

24.

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

25.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

26.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

27.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

28.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

31.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

32.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

35.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

37.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

38.

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

Carty, Margaret

39.

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.

40.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

41.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

42.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

43.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

44.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

46.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

47.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

48.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

49.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

50.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich