Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Rohn, Jim

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

10.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

14.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

15.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

18.

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

Reagan, Ronald

19.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

20.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

25.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

26.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

27.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

33.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

34.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

35.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

36.

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

Herold, Don

37.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

38.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Gillis, Dobie

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

44.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

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.

46.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

47.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

48.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

49.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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