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

1.

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

Marquis, Don

2.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

3.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

4.

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

5.

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.

6.

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

Escher, M. C.

7.

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

8.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

9.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

10.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

16.

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

Dodge, B.

17.

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

Stengel, Casey

18.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

23.

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

Garfield, James A.

24.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

25.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

26.

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

27.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

28.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

30.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

31.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

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

33.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

34.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

35.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

36.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

37.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

38.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

39.

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

Hal Lancaster

40.

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

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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.

42.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

43.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

46.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

47.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

48.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

49.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

50.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman