Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

- Robert Morley

Best Quotes about Work

1.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

2.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

3.

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

4.

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

Bhagavad Gita

5.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

6.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

7.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

8.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

9.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

11.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

18.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

19.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

20.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

21.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

22.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

23.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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

Proverb, American

25.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

27.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

28.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

29.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

30.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

31.

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

32.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

33.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

34.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

35.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

36.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

37.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

38.

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

Foster, Jodie

39.

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

Keller, Helen

40.

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