Motivational Quotes

Work

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

- Stern, Edith Mendel

Best Quotes about Work

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Angelou, Maya

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Mitchell, Warren

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

10.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

11.

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

12.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

13.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

14.

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

15.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

16.

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

Picasso, Pablo

17.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

18.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

19.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

20.

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

21.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

23.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

24.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

25.

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

Henry David Thoreau

26.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

27.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

28.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

29.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

30.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

31.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

32.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

33.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

35.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

36.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

37.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

38.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

39.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

40.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

41.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

42.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

43.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

44.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

47.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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.

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

50.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg