Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

1.

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

Gorky, Maxim

2.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

3.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

4.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

5.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

6.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

7.

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

Keller, Helen

8.

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

9.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

10.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

David McCullough

14.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

15.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

18.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

19.

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

Maurois, Andre

20.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

21.

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

Rutte, Martin

22.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

23.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

26.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

27.

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

Lowell, James Russell

28.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Riley, Pat

30.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

31.

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

Confucius

32.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

33.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

36.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

37.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.