Motivational Quotes

Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

- Larry Page

Best Quotes about Work

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

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Romer, Frank

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

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

LeMond, Greg

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

10.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

11.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

12.

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

13.

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

14.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

15.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

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

17.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

22.

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

Book, William Frederick

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

26.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

27.

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

28.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

29.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

David Shore

33.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

34.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

35.

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

36.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

37.

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

Escher, M. C.

38.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

39.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

40.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

41.

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

42.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

43.

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

Keller, Helen

44.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

45.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

46.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

47.

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

48.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

49.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

50.

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.