Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

1.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

2.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

3.

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

4.

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

Don Marquis

5.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

7.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

8.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

9.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

10.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

12.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

13.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

15.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

20.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

22.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

23.

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

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

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

26.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

27.

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

Proverb, American

28.

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

Bhagavad Gita

29.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Riley, Pat

31.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

32.

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

Anatole France

33.

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

Book, William Frederick

34.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

35.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

36.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

37.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

38.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

39.

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

40.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

41.

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

Lombardi, Vince

42.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

Riley, Pat

44.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

45.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

46.

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

47.

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

David McCullough

48.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

49.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

50.

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.