Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

David McCullough

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

10.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

11.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

12.

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

13.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

14.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

15.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

16.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

17.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

19.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

20.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

24.

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

Romer, Frank

25.

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

Bible

26.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

27.

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

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

30.

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

Gorky, Maxim

31.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

32.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

33.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

34.

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

35.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

36.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

41.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

42.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

45.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

46.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas