Motivational Quotes

Work

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

- Maurice, Priscilla

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Prince, Ray

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

12.

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

13.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

14.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

15.

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

16.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

17.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

18.

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

19.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

20.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

21.

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

Sand, George

22.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

24.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

25.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

28.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

29.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

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

31.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

35.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

36.

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

Devine, Dan

37.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

38.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

40.

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

41.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

42.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

43.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

44.

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

Austen, Jane

45.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

47.

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

Richard Bach

48.

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

Paterno, Joe

49.

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

Dodge, B.

50.

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.