Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Work

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

Escher, M. C.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb, French

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

10.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

11.

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

12.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

13.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

14.

Work is a four letter word!

15.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

16.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

17.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Ford, Henry

21.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

23.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

24.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

25.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

26.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

27.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

28.

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

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

Allen, James

30.

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

Michelangelo

31.

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

Thomas A. Edison

32.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

33.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

36.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

37.

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

38.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

39.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

40.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

41.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

42.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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.

44.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

45.

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

Wilde, Oscar

46.

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

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