Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Shakarian, David

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

10.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

11.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

13.

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

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

15.

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

16.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

17.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

18.

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

19.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

20.

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

Herold, Don

21.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

22.

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

23.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

24.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

27.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

28.

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

29.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

30.

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

31.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

32.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

33.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

34.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

LeMond, Greg

36.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

37.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

38.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

39.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

42.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Dodge, B.

44.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

45.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

46.

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.

47.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

48.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

49.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

50.

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

Twain, Mark