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

1.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

2.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

3.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

4.

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

Stengel, Casey

5.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

6.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

Riley, Pat

10.

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

11.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

12.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

17.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

18.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

19.

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

20.

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

Parkinson's Law

21.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

22.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Rutte, Martin

26.

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

Ford, Henry

27.

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

Garfield, James A.

28.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

29.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

30.

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

Barack Obama

31.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

32.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

36.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

37.

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

38.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

39.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

40.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

Thomas Carlyle

43.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Lombardi, Vince

46.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

Michelangelo

48.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

49.

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

LeMond, Greg

50.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph