Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

10.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

11.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

12.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

13.

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

Kemp, Jack

14.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

15.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

17.

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

18.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

20.

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

Bhagavad Gita

21.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

22.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

23.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

24.

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

Berra, Yogi

25.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

26.

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

Ford, Henry

27.

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

Book, William Frederick

28.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

29.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

33.

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

Riley, Pat

34.

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

Prince, Ray

35.

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

Diller, Phyllis

36.

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

Austen, Jane

37.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

38.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

39.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

40.

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

41.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

42.

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

43.

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

Riley, Pat

44.

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

Lennon, John

45.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

46.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

47.

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

Confucius

48.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

49.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

50.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.