Motivational Quotes

Work

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Work

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Herold, Don

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

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

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Huxley, Aldous

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

10.

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.

11.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

12.

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

Weil, Simone

13.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

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

15.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

16.

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

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

James M. Barrie

18.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

19.

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

Richard Bach

20.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

21.

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

22.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

23.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

24.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

25.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

29.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

30.

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

31.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

33.

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

34.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

35.

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

Riley, Pat

36.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

37.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

38.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

39.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

40.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

41.

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

Austen, Jane

42.

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

Berra, Yogi

43.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

44.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

45.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

46.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

47.

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

Johnson, Samuel

48.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

49.

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

50.

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

Halas, George