Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Don Marquis

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Benchley, Robert

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

10.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

11.

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

Austen, Jane

12.

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

13.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

14.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

15.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

16.

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

17.

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

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

19.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

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

21.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

24.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

25.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

26.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

27.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

28.

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

Syrus, Publilius

29.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

30.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

31.

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.

32.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

34.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

35.

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.

36.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

37.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

38.

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

39.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

40.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

41.

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

42.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

43.

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

Riley, Pat

44.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

45.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

46.

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

Proverb

47.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

48.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

49.

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

50.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace