Motivational Quotes

Work

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Holtz, Lou

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Romer, Frank

10.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

11.

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

Peter Drucker

12.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

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

15.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

16.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

19.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

21.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

22.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

23.

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

Elbert Hubbard

24.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Mitchell, Warren

26.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

27.

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

Huxley, Aldous

28.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

29.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

30.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

31.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

32.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

33.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

34.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

35.

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

Ogden Nash

36.

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

David McCullough

37.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

38.

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

39.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

40.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

LeMond, Greg

44.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

45.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Blow, Susan

47.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

48.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

50.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance