Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

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

Anatole France

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Austen, Jane

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

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

Weil, Simone

10.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

11.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

12.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

13.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

14.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

15.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

16.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

17.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

18.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

19.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

23.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

24.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

25.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

26.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

27.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

28.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

30.

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

Romer, Frank

31.

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

Don Marquis

32.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

33.

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

34.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

35.

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

Bible

36.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

37.

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

Riley, Pat

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

43.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

44.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

48.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

49.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.