Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Escher, M. C.

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

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

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

Don Marquis

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

10.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

12.

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

13.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

14.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

15.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

16.

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

Prince, Ray

17.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

19.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

20.

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

Richard Bach

21.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

22.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

23.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

24.

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

25.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

26.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

27.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

28.

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

29.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

30.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

31.

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

Halas, George

32.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

33.

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

34.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

35.

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.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

37.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

38.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

39.

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

40.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

41.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

42.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

44.

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

Barzan, Gerald

45.

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.

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Weil, Simone

48.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

49.

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

50.

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

Gillis, Dobie