Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the province of cattle.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Work

1.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

2.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

3.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

4.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

5.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

6.

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.

Maurice, Priscilla

7.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

8.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

9.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

10.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

11.

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

Shakarian, David

12.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

13.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

14.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

15.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

17.

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

Jong, Erica

18.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

19.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

Prince, Ray

21.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

22.

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

23.

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

Book, William Frederick

24.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

26.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

30.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

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.

32.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

33.

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

Don Marquis

34.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

35.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

36.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

37.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

38.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

42.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

43.

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

Rohn, Jim

44.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

45.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

46.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

48.

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

Marquis, Don

49.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

50.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew