Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Riley, Pat

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

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

10.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

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

Escher, M. C.

12.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

13.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

14.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

15.

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.

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

19.

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

Benchley, Robert

20.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

31.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

32.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

33.

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

Rutte, Martin

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

36.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

37.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

38.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

42.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

43.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

45.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

46.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

47.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor