Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

10.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

11.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

12.

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

13.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

14.

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

15.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

16.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

18.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

19.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

LeMond, Greg

23.

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

Don Marquis

24.

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

Marquis, Don

25.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

Anatole France

27.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

28.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

29.

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.

Rollwagen, John

30.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

31.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

32.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

33.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

34.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

35.

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

Picasso, Pablo

36.

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.

37.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

38.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

39.

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

40.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

41.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

43.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

44.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

45.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

46.

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

Kemp, Jack

47.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

48.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

49.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

50.

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

Bible