Motivational Quotes

Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

- Pennebaker, Don Alan

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Keller, Helen

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Fox, Jim

10.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

11.

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

Keller, Helen

12.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

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

14.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

16.

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

17.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

18.

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

19.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

20.

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

Garfield, James A.

21.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

Lombardi, Vince

23.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

24.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

25.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

26.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

27.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

28.

Work is a four letter word!

29.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

30.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

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

32.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

33.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

40.

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

41.

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

Diller, Phyllis

42.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

43.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Angelou, Maya

46.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

David McCullough

49.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Herold, Don