Motivational Quotes

Work

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

David McCullough

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

10.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

12.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

13.

...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

14.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

15.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

16.

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

17.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

18.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

21.

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

22.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

26.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

27.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

28.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

34.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

35.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

36.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

37.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

38.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

39.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

40.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

41.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

43.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

44.

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

45.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

46.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

47.

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

Gillis, Dobie

48.

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

Ruskin, John

49.

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

50.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore