Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

10.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

11.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

12.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

14.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

16.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

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

21.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

23.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

24.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

25.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

26.

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

27.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

28.

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

29.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

30.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

31.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

32.

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

33.

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

34.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

35.

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

Paterno, Joe

36.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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.

38.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

39.

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

Hal Lancaster

40.

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

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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

42.

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

Book, William Frederick

43.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

44.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

45.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

46.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

47.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

48.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

49.

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

Halas, George

50.

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