Motivational Quotes

Work

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

- Fleyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Keller, Helen

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

11.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

12.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

15.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

16.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

17.

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

18.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

19.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

20.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

21.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

22.

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

Fox, Jim

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Henry David Thoreau

26.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

27.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

28.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

29.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

30.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

31.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

32.

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

33.

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

Anatole France

34.

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

35.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

36.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

37.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

38.

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

39.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

40.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

41.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

42.

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

Lennon, John

43.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

45.

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

Mitchell, Warren

46.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

47.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

48.

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

Book, William Frederick

49.

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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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.