Motivational Quotes

Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Quotes about Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Garfield, James A.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

10.

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

Henry David Thoreau

11.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

12.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

Robert Morley

14.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

15.

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.

16.

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

Escher, M. C.

17.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

18.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

19.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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

21.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

22.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

23.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

24.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

25.

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

26.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

27.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

28.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

30.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

31.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

32.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

34.

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

35.

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

Jones, Beverly

36.

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

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Sam Ewing

39.

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.

40.

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

Keller, Helen

41.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

44.

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

45.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

46.

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.

47.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

48.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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.

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