Motivational Quotes

Work

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Work

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Johnson, James Weldon

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bhagavad Gita

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

10.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

12.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

13.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

14.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

15.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

16.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

17.

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

18.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

19.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

20.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

21.

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

22.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

24.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

26.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

30.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

31.

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

Thomas A. Edison

32.

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

33.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

34.

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

Jong, Erica

35.

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

36.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

40.

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.

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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

42.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

43.

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

44.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

45.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

46.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

47.

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

Proverb, American

48.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

49.

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

50.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.