Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

Confucius

2.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

3.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

4.

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

Bhagavad Gita

5.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

6.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

7.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

8.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

9.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

10.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

11.

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

Anatole France

12.

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

Gorky, Maxim

13.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

14.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

15.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

20.

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

Lombardi, Vince

21.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

22.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

23.

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

24.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

25.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

26.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Michelangelo

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Kemp, Jack

30.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

31.

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

James M. Barrie

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.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

36.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

38.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

39.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

40.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

41.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

42.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

43.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

44.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

45.

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.

46.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

47.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

48.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

49.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.