Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about 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

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

10.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

11.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

12.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

13.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

14.

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

15.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

17.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

19.

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

20.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

21.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

22.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

25.

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

26.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

27.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

29.

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.

30.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

32.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

33.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

34.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

35.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

36.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

37.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

38.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

39.

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

Benchley, Robert

40.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

41.

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

Lennon, John

42.

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

43.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

44.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

45.

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

46.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

48.

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

Holtz, Lou

49.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

50.

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