Motivational Quotes

Work

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

- Salk, Dr. Jonas

Best Quotes about Work

1.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

2.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

3.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

4.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

5.

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

6.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

7.

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

8.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

9.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

13.

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

Weil, Simone

14.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

17.

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

Ford, Henry

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

20.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

21.

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

22.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

25.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

26.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

27.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

28.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

29.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

30.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Anatole France

33.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

34.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

35.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

36.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

37.

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

38.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

39.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Halas, George

41.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

42.

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

Keller, Helen

43.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

44.

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

Mitchell, Warren

45.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.