Motivational Quotes

Work

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Work

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

Michelangelo

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Keller, Helen

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

11.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

12.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

13.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

14.

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

15.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

16.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

17.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

18.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

19.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

20.

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

21.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

22.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

23.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

27.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

28.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

29.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

30.

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

31.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

32.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

33.

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

34.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

36.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

37.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

38.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

39.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

40.

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

41.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

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

44.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

45.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

47.

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

Rohn, Jim

48.

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

Ogden Nash

49.

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

50.

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

Stengel, Casey