Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Coolidge, Calvin

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

10.

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

11.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

12.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

13.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

14.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

15.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

16.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

17.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

18.

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

19.

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

Dodge, B.

20.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

21.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

22.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

23.

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.

24.

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

Garfield, James A.

25.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

26.

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.

27.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

28.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

29.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

30.

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

David McCullough

31.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

32.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

33.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

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

36.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

37.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

38.

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

39.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

45.

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

Ogden Nash

46.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

47.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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