Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Work

1.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

2.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

3.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

4.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

5.

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

James M. Barrie

6.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

7.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

8.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

9.

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

10.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

11.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

12.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

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

14.

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

Anatole France

15.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

16.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

18.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

19.

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

Blow, Susan

20.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

22.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

23.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

24.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

25.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

27.

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.

28.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

29.

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

Confucius

30.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

31.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

32.

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

Lennon, John

33.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

34.

...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

35.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

36.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

37.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Robert Morley

39.

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

Garfield, James A.

40.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

41.

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

42.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

43.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

44.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

45.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

46.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

47.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

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.

49.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

50.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish