Motivational Quotes

Work

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Work

1.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

2.

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

3.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

4.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

5.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

6.

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

James M. Barrie

7.

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

Voltaire

8.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

9.

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

Carty, Margaret

10.

Work is a four letter word!

11.

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

Kemp, Jack

12.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

13.

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

14.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

15.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

16.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

18.

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

19.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

20.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

21.

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

Anatole France

22.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

24.

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

25.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

27.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

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

LeMond, Greg

29.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

30.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

32.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

33.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

34.

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

35.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

36.

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

Confucius

37.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

38.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

39.

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

40.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

43.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

45.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

46.

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