Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

10.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

14.

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

Richard Bach

15.

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

16.

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

Elbert Hubbard

17.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Book, William Frederick

23.

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

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Angelou, Maya

25.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

31.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

33.

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

34.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

35.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

36.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

37.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

38.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

39.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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

42.

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

43.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

44.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

47.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

48.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.