Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Work

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

John Ruskin

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Sam Ewing

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

10.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

11.

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.

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 alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

16.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

17.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

18.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

21.

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

22.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

23.

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

James M. Barrie

24.

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

Stengel, Casey

25.

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

Austen, Jane

26.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

27.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

32.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

34.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

35.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

36.

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

Lombardi, Vince

37.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Richard Bach

41.

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

Robert Morley

42.

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

43.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

44.

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

45.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

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

48.

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

Herold, Don

49.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert