Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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.

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

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

Allen, James

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

13.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

14.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

15.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

20.

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

21.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

22.

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

Henry David Thoreau

23.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

24.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

25.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

26.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Berra, Yogi

28.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

29.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

30.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

31.

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

32.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

33.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

38.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

39.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

43.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

44.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

45.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

49.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

50.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich