Motivational Quotes

Work

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Barack Obama

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

10.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

12.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

13.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

14.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

15.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

16.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

17.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

18.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

19.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

20.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

21.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

22.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

23.

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

24.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

25.

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

26.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

27.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

28.

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

Halas, George

29.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

30.

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

31.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

32.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

33.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

34.

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.

35.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

40.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim