Motivational Quotes

Work

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Romer, Frank

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.

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

Confucius

14.

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

Berra, Yogi

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

17.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

18.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

19.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

20.

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

21.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

22.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

23.

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

Herbert, George

24.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

25.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

26.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

28.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

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

31.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

32.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

33.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

34.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

35.

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

36.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

38.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

41.

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

Riley, Pat

42.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

43.

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

Barzan, Gerald

44.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

46.

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

LeMond, Greg

47.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

48.

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

49.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

50.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.