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

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Paterno, Joe

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

10.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

11.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

12.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

13.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

14.

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

Oakley, Ann

15.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

16.

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

Maurois, Andre

17.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

18.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

19.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

23.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

26.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

29.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Gillis, Dobie

32.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

33.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

37.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

38.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

46.

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

47.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

48.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

49.

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

50.

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