Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

2.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

3.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

4.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

5.

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

6.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

7.

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

Parkinson's Law

8.

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

David McCullough

9.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

11.

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

12.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

13.

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

Frost, Robert

14.

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

15.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

16.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

17.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

20.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

21.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

22.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

23.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

26.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

27.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

28.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

29.

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

David Shore

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

32.

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

33.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

36.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

37.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

38.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

39.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

48.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

49.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

50.

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