Motivational Quotes

Work

Better to burn out than rust out.

- Young, Neil

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Kemp, Jack

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

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Reagan, Ronald

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

11.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

12.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

13.

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

Keller, Helen

14.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

15.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

16.

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.

17.

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

Riley, Pat

18.

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

19.

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

Holtz, Lou

20.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

21.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

25.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

26.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

27.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

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

Ford, Henry

29.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

30.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

31.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

32.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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

Lowell, James Russell

34.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

36.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

39.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

40.

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

41.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

43.

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

44.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

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

47.

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

Romer, Frank

48.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

49.

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

Gorky, Maxim