Motivational Quotes

Work

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Work

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

Fox, Jim

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Robert Benchley

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

10.

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

Escher, M. C.

11.

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

12.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

13.

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

14.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

15.

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

Mitchell, Warren

16.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

17.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

18.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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

20.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

21.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

22.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

23.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

24.

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.

25.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

26.

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

27.

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

28.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

29.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

30.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

Ruskin, John

33.

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

Reagan, Ronald

34.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

35.

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

Anatole France

36.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

37.

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

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

39.

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

40.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

41.

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

Jong, Erica

42.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

44.

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

45.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

47.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

48.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

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

50.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean