Motivational Quotes

Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

James M. Barrie

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Jong, Erica

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

10.

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

11.

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

Holtz, Lou

12.

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

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

15.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

16.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

17.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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.

19.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

20.

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

Keller, Helen

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Diller, Phyllis

23.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

24.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

25.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

26.

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

Book, William Frederick

27.

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

Marquis, Don

28.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

29.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

30.

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

31.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

32.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

33.

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

34.

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

35.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

38.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

39.

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

Halas, George

40.

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

Rutte, Martin

41.

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

43.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

44.

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

45.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

46.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

47.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

49.

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

Ford, Henry

50.

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