Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thomas Carlyle

10.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

11.

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

Richard Bach

12.

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

Hal Lancaster

13.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

16.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

17.

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

18.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

19.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

20.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

21.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

22.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

23.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

24.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

26.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

27.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

28.

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

Romer, Frank

29.

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

30.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

31.

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

Diller, Phyllis

32.

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

Proverb

33.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

34.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

35.

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

Benchley, Robert

36.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

40.

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

41.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

42.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Robert Benchley

46.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

47.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

48.

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

Baldwin, James

49.

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

50.

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

Rivers, Joan