Motivational Quotes

Work

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Work

1.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

2.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

3.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

4.

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

Rivers, Joan

5.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

6.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

7.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

8.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

9.

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

10.

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

11.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

12.

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

Keller, Helen

13.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

14.

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

Gillis, Dobie

15.

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

16.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

17.

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

Austen, Jane

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Holtz, Lou

21.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

22.

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

Richard Bach

23.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

26.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

27.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

28.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

29.

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

Foster, Jodie

30.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

31.

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

Benchley, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

34.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

35.

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

36.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

37.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

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.

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

Herbert, George

46.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.