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

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Robert Morley

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

Voltaire

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Berra, Yogi

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

10.

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

11.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

12.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

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

14.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

15.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

16.

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

17.

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

Romer, Frank

18.

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.

John Ruskin

19.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Herbert, George

25.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

26.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

27.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

28.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

29.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

34.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

35.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

36.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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.

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

39.

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

Elbert Hubbard

40.

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

Riley, Pat

41.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

42.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

43.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

44.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

45.

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

Riley, Pat

46.

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

47.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

48.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

49.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

50.

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