Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Atkinson, Brooks

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

10.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

11.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

12.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

13.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

14.

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

Escher, M. C.

15.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

16.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

17.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

18.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

19.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

20.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

21.

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

22.

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

Michelangelo

23.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

24.

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

25.

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

26.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

28.

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

Henry David Thoreau

29.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

30.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Blow, Susan

34.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

35.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

36.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

37.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

38.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

39.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

42.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

43.

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

Keller, Helen

44.

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

45.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

47.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

48.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

49.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

50.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.