Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

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

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Garfield, James A.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Prince, Ray

10.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

11.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

12.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

13.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

14.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

15.

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

Confucius

16.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

17.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

21.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

22.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

23.

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

24.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Barzan, Gerald

30.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

31.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

32.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

33.

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

Sand, George

34.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

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

37.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

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

Baldwin, James

39.

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

40.

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

Romer, Frank

41.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

42.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Keller, Helen

46.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

47.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

48.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

49.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

50.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David