Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lincoln, Abraham

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

11.

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

12.

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

Anatole France

13.

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

Riley, Pat

14.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

15.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

16.

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

17.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

18.

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

Berra, Yogi

19.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

20.

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

Reagan, Ronald

21.

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

22.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

23.

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

Oakley, Ann

24.

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

Gillis, Dobie

25.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

28.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Lowell, James Russell

32.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

33.

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

34.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

36.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

37.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

38.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

40.

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

LeMond, Greg

41.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

42.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

43.

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

Dodge, B.

44.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

45.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

46.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

47.

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

48.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

49.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

50.

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