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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10.

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

Michelangelo

11.

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

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

13.

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

14.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

15.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

16.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

17.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

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

19.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

20.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

22.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

23.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

24.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

25.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

26.

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

27.

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

Anatole France

28.

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

29.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

30.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

31.

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

David McCullough

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

35.

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

Don Marquis

36.

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

37.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

38.

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

Frost, Robert

39.

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

Proverb, American

40.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

41.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

42.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

43.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

44.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.