Motivational Quotes

Work

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Best Quotes about Work

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

Voltaire

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

Billings, Josh

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

Riley, Pat

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

Dodge, B.

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

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

Howard Newton

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

13.

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

David McCullough

14.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

15.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

16.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

17.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

18.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

19.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

20.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

22.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

23.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

27.

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

Bible

28.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

29.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

30.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

32.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

33.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

34.

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.

35.

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

Foster, Jodie

36.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

37.

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

Kemp, Jack

38.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

39.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

43.

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

44.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

47.

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

48.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

49.

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

Johnson, Samuel

50.

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