Motivational Quotes

Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

- Calloway, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

11.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

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

Austen, Jane

15.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

16.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

17.

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

Robert Morley

18.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

19.

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

20.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

21.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

22.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

23.

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

Herold, Don

24.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

25.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

26.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

28.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

34.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

36.

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

37.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

38.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

39.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

40.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

41.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

42.

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

43.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

44.

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

Thomas A. Edison

45.

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

46.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

47.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

48.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

49.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.