Motivational Quotes

Work

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

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

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Foster, Jodie

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

10.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

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

Henry David Thoreau

12.

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

13.

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

14.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

15.

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

Don Marquis

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

18.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

19.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

20.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

21.

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

22.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

23.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

24.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

25.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

29.

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

30.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

31.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

32.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

33.

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

Richard Bach

34.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

35.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

37.

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

38.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

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

Shakarian, David

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, French

42.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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.

44.

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

Confucius

45.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

47.

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