Motivational Quotes

Work

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

- Saintamo, Michael De

Best Quotes about Work

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Work is a four letter word!

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

11.

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.

12.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

13.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

14.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

15.

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

16.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

17.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

18.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

19.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

20.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

21.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

22.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

23.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

24.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

25.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

26.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

31.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

32.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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.

34.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

35.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

36.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

37.

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

Foster, Jodie

38.

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

Richard Bach

39.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

40.

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

41.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

42.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

43.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

44.

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

45.

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

Elbert Hubbard

46.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

47.

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