Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Work

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robert Benchley

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Blow, Susan

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Baldwin, James

10.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

11.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

12.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

13.

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

14.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

15.

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.

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Jong, Erica

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Lombardi, Vince

20.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

21.

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

22.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

23.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

26.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

27.

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

Lennon, John

28.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

30.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

31.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

32.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

33.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

35.

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

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

37.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

Don Marquis

39.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

41.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

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