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

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

10.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

11.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

12.

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

13.

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

Elbert Hubbard

14.

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

Diller, Phyllis

15.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

19.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

23.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

24.

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

25.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Herold, Don

29.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

30.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

31.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Austen, Jane

33.

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

34.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

36.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

37.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

38.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

39.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

43.

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

Weil, Simone

44.

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

Mitchell, Warren

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

48.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

49.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.