Motivational Quotes

Work

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Work

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

Richard Bach

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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.

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

Bible

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Theodore Roosevelt

10.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

11.

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

Butterworth, Eric

12.

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

13.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

14.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

16.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

17.

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

18.

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

Syrus, Publilius

19.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

21.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

22.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

23.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

24.

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

Prince, Ray

25.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

27.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

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

Pavlova, Anna

31.

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

32.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

33.

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

34.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

35.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

36.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

41.

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

42.

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

Escher, M. C.

43.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

45.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

46.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

47.

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.

48.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

49.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

50.

Work is a four letter word!