Motivational Quotes

Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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

Ford, Henry

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Don Marquis

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

10.

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

11.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

14.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

15.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Sand, George

19.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

21.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

22.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

23.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

24.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

25.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

26.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

27.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

28.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

LeMond, Greg

30.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

31.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

33.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

34.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

35.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

36.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

37.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

38.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

39.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

41.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

42.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

43.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

47.

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

48.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.