Motivational Quotes

Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

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

Marquis, Don

11.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

12.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

14.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

15.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

16.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

17.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

18.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

20.

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

Jong, Erica

21.

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

Rutte, Martin

22.

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

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

24.

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

25.

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

Bhagavad Gita

26.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

27.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

28.

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

Thomas A. Edison

29.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

30.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

31.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

33.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

36.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

37.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

38.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

39.

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

40.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Benchley, Robert

44.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

45.

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

Devine, Dan

46.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

47.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

48.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

49.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

50.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin