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

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.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Syrus, Publilius

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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.

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

Parkinson's Law

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

10.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

11.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

12.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

13.

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.

14.

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

Austen, Jane

15.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

17.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

18.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

19.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Thomas Carlyle

21.

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

Rivers, Joan

22.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

23.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

24.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

25.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

26.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

27.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

28.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

31.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

32.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

33.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

34.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

35.

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

Pavlova, Anna

36.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

37.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

38.

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

Herold, Don

39.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

Keller, Helen

41.

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

42.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

43.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

44.

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

45.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

46.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

47.

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

48.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

49.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

50.

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

Proverb