Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pavlova, Anna

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

10.

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

Blow, Susan

11.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

12.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

13.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

15.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

16.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

17.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

18.

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

Elbert Hubbard

19.

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

Rivers, Joan

20.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

21.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

22.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

23.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

24.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

25.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

26.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

27.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

28.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

29.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

30.

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

Riley, Pat

31.

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

Oprah Winfrey

32.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

33.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

35.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

36.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

37.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

38.

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

Barzan, Gerald

39.

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

Hal Lancaster

40.

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

41.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

42.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

43.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

45.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

46.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

48.

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

49.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

50.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard