Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Jones, Beverly

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

David McCullough

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.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

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

Michelangelo

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

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

Carty, Margaret

14.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

15.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

16.

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

17.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

19.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

20.

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

21.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

22.

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

Pavlova, Anna

23.

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

24.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

26.

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

Foster, Jodie

27.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

28.

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.

29.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

30.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

32.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

35.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

36.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

37.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

39.

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

Fox, Jim

40.

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

41.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

42.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

43.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

44.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

45.

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

Riley, Pat

46.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

47.

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

48.

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

Rohn, Jim

49.

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

50.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle