Motivational Quotes

Work

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

- Shakarian, David

Best Quotes about Work

1.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

2.

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

3.

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

Foster, Jodie

4.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

5.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

6.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

7.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

8.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

9.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

10.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

11.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

12.

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

Slick, Grace

13.

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

Peter Drucker

14.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

15.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

16.

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

Picasso, Pablo

17.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

18.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

19.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

20.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

21.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

22.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

23.

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

Dodge, B.

24.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

25.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

26.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

27.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

28.

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

29.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Romer, Frank

32.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Lowell, James Russell

34.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

35.

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.

36.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

37.

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

38.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

40.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

42.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

43.

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

44.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

45.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

46.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

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

48.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

49.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

50.

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

Robert Morley