Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Proverb, American

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

11.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

13.

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

Allen, James

14.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

15.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

16.

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

17.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

21.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

23.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

24.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

25.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

26.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

27.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

28.

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.

29.

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

Riley, Pat

30.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

31.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

32.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

33.

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

34.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

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

36.

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

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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.

39.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

40.

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

41.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

43.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

44.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

45.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

47.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

48.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

49.

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

50.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.