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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

10.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

11.

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

12.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

13.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

14.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

15.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

16.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

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

18.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

19.

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

20.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

21.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

22.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

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

David McCullough

24.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

26.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

27.

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

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

29.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

31.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

32.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

33.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

34.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

36.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

37.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

38.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

39.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

40.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

41.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

42.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

43.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

44.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

45.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

46.

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

Robert Morley

47.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

48.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

49.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

50.

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