Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Salk, Dr. Jonas

Best Quotes about Work

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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.

John Ruskin

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Dodge, B.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

10.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

11.

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

12.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

13.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

17.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

18.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

19.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

20.

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

Rutte, Martin

21.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

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

Robert Benchley

24.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

25.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

26.

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

Marquis, Don

27.

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

Anatole France

28.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

29.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

30.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

31.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

33.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

34.

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

35.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

37.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

38.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

39.

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

40.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

41.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

42.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

43.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

45.

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

46.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

47.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

48.

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

49.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

50.

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

Ashford, Evelyn