Motivational Quotes

Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Austen, Jane

10.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

12.

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

Devine, Dan

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

15.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

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

Dodge, B.

18.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

19.

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

20.

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

Barack Obama

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

26.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

27.

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

28.

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

James M. Barrie

29.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

31.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

32.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

33.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

34.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

35.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

36.

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

Escher, M. C.

37.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

Robert Morley

40.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

42.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

43.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

44.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

46.

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

Reagan, Ronald

47.

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

48.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

49.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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