Motivational Quotes

Work

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

11.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

13.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

14.

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

15.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

18.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

19.

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.

20.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

21.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Work is a four letter word!

23.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

24.

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

25.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

29.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

30.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

31.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

34.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

35.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

36.

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

37.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

38.

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

Sam Ewing

39.

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

Pavlova, Anna

40.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

41.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

42.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

43.

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

David McCullough

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

46.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

47.

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

48.

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

Dodge, B.

49.

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

David Shore

50.

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.