Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Sand, George

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

10.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

11.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

12.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

13.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

16.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

21.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

22.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

23.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

24.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

25.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

26.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

27.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

28.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

29.

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.

30.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

31.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

32.

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

Garfield, James A.

33.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

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

Anatole France

37.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

38.

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

Book, William Frederick

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Howard Newton

41.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

44.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

45.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

48.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

50.

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