Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

10.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

11.

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

Henry David Thoreau

12.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

13.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

14.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

15.

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

16.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

17.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

18.

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

Barack Obama

19.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

20.

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

Rutte, Martin

21.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

24.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

25.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

26.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

27.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

28.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

29.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

30.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

31.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

32.

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

Proverb, American

33.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

34.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

36.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

37.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

38.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

39.

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

Prince, Ray

40.

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

Riley, Pat

41.

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.

42.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

44.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

45.

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

46.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

47.

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

48.

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

Riley, Pat

49.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.