Motivational Quotes

Work

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Work

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

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

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

Blow, Susan

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, French

12.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

13.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Lombardi, Vince

15.

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

Huxley, Aldous

16.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

17.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

18.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

19.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

20.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

22.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

23.

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

Richard Bach

24.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

26.

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

Thomas Carlyle

27.

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

Stengel, Casey

28.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

29.

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

LeMond, Greg

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

38.

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

Benchley, Robert

39.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

40.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

42.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

43.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

44.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

Riley, Pat

46.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert