Motivational Quotes

Work

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Work

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Blow, Susan

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

10.

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

Oakley, Ann

11.

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

Marquis, Don

12.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

Holtz, Lou

15.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

16.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

17.

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

18.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

19.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

20.

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

21.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

22.

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

Pavlova, Anna

23.

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

Rohn, Jim

24.

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

25.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

26.

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

27.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

28.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

29.

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

Berra, Yogi

30.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

31.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

32.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

33.

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

34.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

35.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

36.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

37.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

38.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

39.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

41.

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

Gorky, Maxim

42.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

43.

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

Elbert Hubbard

44.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

48.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

49.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

50.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray