Motivational Quotes

Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

15.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

16.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

17.

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

18.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

19.

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

20.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

21.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

22.

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

Benchley, Robert

23.

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

Henry David Thoreau

24.

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

25.

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

Herbert, George

26.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

34.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

35.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

38.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

39.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

40.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

41.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

42.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

46.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

48.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

49.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

50.

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

Austen, Jane