Motivational Quotes

Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Atkinson, Brooks

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

10.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

11.

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

Keller, Helen

12.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

13.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

14.

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

Sand, George

15.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

16.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

17.

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

Barack Obama

18.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

19.

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

20.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

21.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

22.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

23.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

24.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

25.

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.

26.

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

Ruskin, John

27.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

28.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Diller, Phyllis

31.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

32.

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

33.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

34.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

35.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

36.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

37.

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

38.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

Peter Drucker

40.

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

Lennon, John

41.

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

42.

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

Marquis, Don

43.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

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

46.

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

47.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

48.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

49.

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

50.

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.