Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

12.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

13.

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

Maurois, Andre

14.

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

Anatole France

15.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

16.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

17.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

18.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

Richard Bach

20.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

21.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

22.

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

23.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

24.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

25.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

26.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

27.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

28.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

29.

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

Rivers, Joan

30.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

31.

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

32.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

33.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

34.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

35.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

36.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

37.

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.

John Ruskin

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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

39.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

40.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

41.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

42.

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

43.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

44.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

45.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

46.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

47.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

48.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

49.

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

50.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody