Motivational Quotes

Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

12.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

13.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

15.

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

Huxley, Aldous

16.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

17.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

18.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

19.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

20.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

21.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

23.

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

24.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

29.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

30.

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

31.

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

LeMond, Greg

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

35.

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

36.

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

Howard Newton

37.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

38.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

39.

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

Lombardi, Vince

40.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

41.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

42.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

43.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

44.

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

45.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

46.

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

47.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

48.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

49.

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

Riley, Pat

50.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish