Motivational Quotes

Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

Riley, Pat

2.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

3.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

4.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

5.

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

James M. Barrie

6.

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

7.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

8.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

9.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

10.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

11.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

15.

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

Huxley, Aldous

16.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

17.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

18.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

20.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

21.

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

22.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

23.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

24.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

25.

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

26.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

27.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

28.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

29.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

30.

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

31.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

33.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

34.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

35.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

36.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

37.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

38.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

39.

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

Proverb, French

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

42.

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

Rohn, Jim

43.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

Romer, Frank

46.

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

Berra, Yogi

47.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

48.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

49.

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

50.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James