Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bob Ross

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.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

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

10.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

11.

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

David Shore

12.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

13.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

14.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

16.

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

17.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

19.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

20.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

21.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

22.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

23.

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

Prince, Ray

24.

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

Michelangelo

25.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

29.

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

Barzan, Gerald

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

33.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

34.

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

Holtz, Lou

35.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

36.

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

LeMond, Greg

37.

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

38.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

39.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

40.

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

Hal Lancaster

41.

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

Garfield, James A.

42.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

43.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

44.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

45.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

46.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

47.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

48.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

49.

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

50.

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