Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Pavlova, Anna

Best Quotes about Work

1.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

2.

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

Rivers, Joan

3.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

4.

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

5.

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

Halas, George

6.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

7.

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

8.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

9.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

10.

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

Thomas A. Edison

11.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

13.

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

14.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

15.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Marquis, Don

20.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

21.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

22.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

23.

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

24.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

25.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

26.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

28.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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.

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.

31.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

32.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

33.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

34.

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

35.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

36.

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

Bhagavad Gita

37.

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

38.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

39.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

40.

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

Dodge, B.

41.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

42.

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

43.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

45.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

46.

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.

47.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

48.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

49.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

50.

Work your way up or rust your way out.