Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Work

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Riley, Pat

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

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

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

Dodge, B.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

11.

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

Peter Drucker

12.

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

13.

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

14.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

15.

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

16.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

17.

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

18.

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

Robert Benchley

19.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

20.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

Fox, Jim

23.

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

24.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

25.

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

26.

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

Riley, Pat

27.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Austen, Jane

29.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

30.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

31.

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.

32.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

33.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

34.

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

35.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

36.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

37.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

38.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

39.

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

40.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

41.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

42.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

43.

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

Reagan, Ronald

44.

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

Mitchell, Warren

45.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

46.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

48.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

49.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

50.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible