Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wran, Neville Kenneth

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

Don Marquis

2.

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

Herold, Don

3.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

4.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

5.

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

6.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

7.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

8.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

9.

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

Robert Benchley

10.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

11.

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.

12.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

13.

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

Elbert Hubbard

14.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

15.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

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

Robert Morley

17.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

18.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

21.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

22.

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

23.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

Benchley, Robert

25.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

27.

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

Escher, M. C.

28.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

29.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

30.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

33.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

34.

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

Keller, Helen

35.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

36.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

37.

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

Howard Newton

38.

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

LeMond, Greg

39.

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

Henry David Thoreau

40.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

41.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

42.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

43.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

44.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

45.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

46.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

47.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

48.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

49.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

50.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan