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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Anatole France

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dodge, B.

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

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

10.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

11.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

12.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

13.

Work is a four letter word!

14.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

15.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

16.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

19.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

20.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

23.

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

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

25.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

26.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

27.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

28.

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

LeMond, Greg

29.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

32.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

36.

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

Huxley, Aldous

37.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

38.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

39.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

40.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

42.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

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

Jong, Erica

45.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

46.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

47.

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

48.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

49.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell