Motivational Quotes

Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

- Streep, Meryl

Best Quotes about Work

1.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

2.

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

Proverb, American

3.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

4.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

6.

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

Riley, Pat

7.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

8.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

9.

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

Halas, George

10.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

12.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

13.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

14.

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

Thomas A. Edison

15.

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

Stengel, Casey

16.

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

17.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

18.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

19.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

21.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

22.

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

Reagan, Ronald

23.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

24.

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

25.

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

Riley, Pat

26.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

27.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

30.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

31.

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

33.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

34.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

35.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

36.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

37.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

38.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

39.

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

40.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

42.

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

Lombardi, Vince

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

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

46.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

47.

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

48.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

49.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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

Mitchell, Warren