Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Work

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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.

10.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

11.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

12.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

13.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

14.

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

Elbert Hubbard

15.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

17.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

20.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

21.

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

22.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

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

Book, William Frederick

24.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

25.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

26.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

27.

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

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

29.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

30.

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

Peter Drucker

31.

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

32.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

33.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

34.

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

35.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

36.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

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

Riley, Pat

39.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

41.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

45.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

46.

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

47.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

48.

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.

49.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

50.

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

Ruskin, John