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

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Ford, Henry

10.

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

11.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

12.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

13.

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

Thomas A. Edison

14.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

15.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

16.

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

Slick, Grace

17.

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

18.

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

Robert Morley

19.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

20.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

21.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

22.

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

24.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

25.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

26.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

27.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

28.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

29.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

30.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

31.

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

Michelangelo

32.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

33.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

36.

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

Keller, Helen

37.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

38.

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

Ford, Henry

39.

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

40.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

41.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

42.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

44.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

45.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

46.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

49.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

50.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.