Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Smith, Dr. Walter

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

3.

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

Proverb, American

4.

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

5.

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

Thomas Carlyle

6.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

7.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

8.

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

Paterno, Joe

9.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

14.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

15.

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

Gillis, Dobie

16.

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

Richard Bach

17.

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

18.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

19.

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

20.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

21.

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

22.

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

23.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

24.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

25.

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

Marquis, Don

26.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

29.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

30.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

31.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

32.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

34.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

36.

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

37.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

38.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

39.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

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

41.

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

Keller, Helen

42.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

43.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

44.

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

45.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

46.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

47.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

48.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

49.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

50.

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

Foster, Jodie