Motivational Quotes

Work

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Peter Drucker

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

Dodge, B.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Don Marquis

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

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

Twain, Mark

10.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

13.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

14.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

15.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

16.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

17.

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

Austen, Jane

18.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

19.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

22.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

29.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

30.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

31.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

32.

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

33.

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

Devine, Dan

34.

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

Escher, M. C.

35.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

36.

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

37.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

38.

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

Hal Lancaster

39.

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

40.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

41.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

43.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

44.

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

45.

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

Mitchell, Warren

46.

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

Ford, Henry

47.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

50.

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