Motivational Quotes

Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Work

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Don Marquis

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Rutte, Martin

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

David McCullough

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

Syrus, Publilius

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Proverb

10.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

11.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

12.

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

Marquis, Don

13.

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

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

17.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

18.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

19.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

20.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

21.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

22.

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

Frost, Robert

23.

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

24.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

26.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

27.

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

Robert Benchley

28.

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.

29.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

30.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

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

32.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

33.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

36.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

37.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

39.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

40.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

41.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

42.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

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

Riley, Pat

44.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

45.

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

Thomas A. Edison

46.

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

47.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

48.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

49.

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

50.

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

Lincoln, Abraham