Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kemp, Jack

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

10.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

11.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.

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

Holtz, Lou

15.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

16.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

17.

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

Marquis, Don

18.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

19.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

21.

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

Bob Ross

22.

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

23.

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

Don Marquis

24.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

25.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

26.

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

Lombardi, Vince

27.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

28.

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

29.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

30.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

31.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

32.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

33.

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

34.

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

Frost, Robert

35.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

36.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

37.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

38.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

41.

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

42.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

43.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

44.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

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

50.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing