Motivational Quotes

Work

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Picasso, Pablo

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

10.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

11.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

12.

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

13.

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

Barack Obama

14.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

17.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

18.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

19.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

20.

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

Parkinson's Law

21.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

22.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

23.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

24.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

26.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

27.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

32.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

33.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

34.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

35.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

36.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

37.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

38.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

39.

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

Ford, Henry

40.

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

41.

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

Paterno, Joe

42.

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

Maurois, Andre

43.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

44.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

45.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

46.

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

Keller, Helen

47.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo