Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Weil, Simone

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Gretzky, Wayne

10.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

11.

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

12.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

13.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

14.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

15.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

18.

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

Howard Newton

19.

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

Diller, Phyllis

20.

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

21.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

Don Marquis

23.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

24.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

25.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

27.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

29.

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

30.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

31.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

32.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

33.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

34.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

35.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

36.

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

37.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

38.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

39.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

40.

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

Herbert, George

41.

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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

43.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.