Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Prince, Ray

Best Quotes about Work

1.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

2.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

3.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

4.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

5.

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

LeMond, Greg

6.

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

Herbert, George

7.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

8.

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

Jong, Erica

9.

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

Rohn, Jim

10.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

11.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

12.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

13.

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

14.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

15.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

16.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

17.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

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

Lombardi, Vince

22.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

23.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

24.

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

Riley, Pat

25.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

26.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

27.

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

28.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

29.

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

30.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

32.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

36.

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

37.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

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

39.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

40.

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

41.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

42.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

43.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

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

Holtz, Lou

45.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

46.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

47.

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

Picasso, Pablo

48.

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

49.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

50.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore