Motivational Quotes

Work

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

11.

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

12.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

13.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

14.

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

Barzan, Gerald

15.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

16.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

17.

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

Book, William Frederick

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

22.

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

Sam Ewing

23.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

26.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

27.

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

28.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

29.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

30.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

31.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

32.

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

33.

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

Parkinson's Law

34.

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

35.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

36.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

37.

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

38.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

43.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

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

Kemp, Jack

45.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

46.

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

Fox, Jim

47.

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

48.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

49.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

50.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert