Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Romer, Frank

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

Ogden Nash

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

David McCullough

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

Lennon, John

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

10.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

11.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

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

Diller, Phyllis

13.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

14.

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

Kemp, Jack

15.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

16.

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

Barack Obama

17.

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

18.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

19.

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

Stengel, Casey

20.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

21.

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

Thomas A. Edison

22.

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

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

25.

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

26.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

27.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

31.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

32.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Ford, Henry

36.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

37.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

38.

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

Halas, George

39.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

40.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

42.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

44.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

45.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

46.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

47.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

48.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

50.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody