Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Lombardi, Vince

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Proverb, American

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

10.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

11.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

14.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

15.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

16.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

17.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

18.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

20.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

21.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

22.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

30.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

31.

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

Anatole France

32.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

33.

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

Riley, Pat

34.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Diller, Phyllis

36.

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

Gorky, Maxim

37.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

39.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

40.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

43.

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

Blow, Susan

44.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

45.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

48.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

49.

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

Ford, Henry

50.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.