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

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

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

Riley, Pat

10.

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

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Escher, M. C.

13.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

14.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

15.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

17.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

18.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Devine, Dan

22.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

24.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

25.

Work is a four letter word!

26.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

Blow, Susan

28.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

29.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

30.

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

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Richard Bach

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

39.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

40.

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

Sam Ewing

41.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

42.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

43.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

45.

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