Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Gretzky, Wayne

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

10.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

13.

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

14.

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

Gillis, Dobie

15.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

16.

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

Riley, Pat

17.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

18.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

19.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Henry David Thoreau

21.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

22.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

26.

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

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

31.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

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

34.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

35.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

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

Reagan, Ronald

37.

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

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

40.

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

41.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

42.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

43.

Work is a four letter word!

44.

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

45.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

46.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

47.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

48.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

49.

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.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth