Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gillis, Dobie

Best Quotes about Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Baldwin, James

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Henry J. Kaiser

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

10.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

11.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

12.

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

Herbert, George

13.

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

14.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

19.

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

20.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

21.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

22.

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

Rivers, Joan

23.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

27.

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

Bob Ross

28.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Ruskin, John

31.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

32.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

33.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

34.

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

35.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

36.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

37.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

38.

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

39.

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

Jones, Beverly

40.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

41.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

42.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

46.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

47.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

48.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

49.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

50.

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