Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kollwitz, KaThe

Best Quotes about Work

1.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

2.

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

Book, William Frederick

3.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

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

Blow, Susan

5.

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

Thomas Carlyle

6.

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

Thomas A. Edison

7.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

8.

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.

9.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

10.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

11.

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

Don Marquis

12.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Rivers, Joan

14.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

15.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

16.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

17.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

18.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

22.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

23.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

24.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

25.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

27.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

29.

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

Holtz, Lou

30.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

32.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

33.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Bible

37.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Escher, M. C.

39.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

41.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

43.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

44.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

45.

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

Richard Bach

46.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

47.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

48.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

49.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

50.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas