Motivational Quotes

Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

- Tessier, Josephine

Best Quotes about Work

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Austen, Jane

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

Huxley, Aldous

11.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Syrus, Publilius

13.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

14.

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.

15.

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

James M. Barrie

16.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Gorky, Maxim

19.

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

Proverb

20.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

23.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

24.

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

Robert Morley

25.

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

26.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

27.

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

Confucius

28.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

29.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

30.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

31.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

32.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

33.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

35.

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

Lombardi, Vince

36.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

37.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

38.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

39.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

40.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

41.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

42.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

43.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

45.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

46.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

50.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion