Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Work

1.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

2.

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

3.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

4.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

5.

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

6.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

7.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

8.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

10.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

11.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

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

13.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

14.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

16.

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

17.

Work is a four letter word!

18.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

22.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

27.

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

Marquis, Don

28.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

29.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

30.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

31.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

32.

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

LeMond, Greg

33.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

34.

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

Confucius

35.

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

Butterworth, Eric

36.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

37.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

38.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

39.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

40.

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.

41.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

44.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

45.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

46.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

47.

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

Elbert Hubbard

48.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

49.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

50.

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