Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Riley, Pat

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

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Holtz, Lou

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

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

10.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

11.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

12.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

13.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

14.

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

Stengel, Casey

15.

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

David McCullough

16.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

17.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

18.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

19.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

20.

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

21.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

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

24.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

25.

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

26.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

27.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

28.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

30.

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

Rivers, Joan

31.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

32.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

33.

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

Riley, Pat

34.

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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

39.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

40.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Proverb, American

42.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

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

45.

...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

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

Bob Ross

47.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

48.

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

Proverb, French

49.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

50.

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

Ruskin, John