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

1.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

2.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

3.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

4.

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

Escher, M. C.

5.

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

Fox, Jim

6.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

7.

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

8.

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

Bob Ross

9.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

10.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

11.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

12.

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.

13.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

14.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

15.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

Lowell, James Russell

17.

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

Syrus, Publilius

18.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

21.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

23.

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

Riley, Pat

24.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

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

27.

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

Jong, Erica

28.

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

Garfield, James A.

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Foster, Jodie

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

34.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

35.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

36.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

37.

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

Michelangelo

38.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

41.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

42.

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

43.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

44.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

45.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

46.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.