Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Jong, Erica

Work is a four letter word!

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

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

11.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

12.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

13.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

14.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

15.

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

Gillis, Dobie

16.

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

Bob Ross

17.

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

Austen, Jane

18.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

19.

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

Diller, Phyllis

20.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

21.

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

Robert Morley

22.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

23.

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

Butler, Samuel

24.

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

25.

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

26.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

27.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Carty, Margaret

29.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

30.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

34.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

35.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

36.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

37.

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

Keller, Helen

38.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

39.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

40.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

41.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

42.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

43.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

44.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

45.

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

46.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

47.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

48.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.