Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

1.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

2.

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

Romer, Frank

3.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

4.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

5.

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

Thomas A. Edison

6.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

7.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

8.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

9.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

10.

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

Henry David Thoreau

11.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

12.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

13.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

14.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

15.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

17.

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

18.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

19.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

Robert Benchley

24.

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

Rivers, Joan

25.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

26.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

27.

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

28.

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

Herbert, George

29.

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

Don Marquis

30.

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

Halas, George

31.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

33.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

34.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

35.

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.

36.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

38.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

42.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

43.

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

Anatole France

44.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

45.

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

Picasso, Pablo

46.

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

47.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

48.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

49.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

50.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama