Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Newton, Sir Isaac

Best Quotes about Work

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

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

David McCullough

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Garfield, James A.

10.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

12.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

13.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

14.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

15.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

Fox, Jim

18.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

19.

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

Sam Ewing

20.

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

21.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

22.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

23.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

24.

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

25.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

26.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

28.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

29.

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

Shakarian, David

30.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

31.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

32.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Benchley, Robert

34.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

39.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

40.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

41.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

42.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

43.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

47.

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

48.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

49.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

50.

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.