Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

1.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

2.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

3.

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

Rohn, Jim

4.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

5.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

6.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

7.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

8.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

9.

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

Holtz, Lou

10.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

11.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

12.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

13.

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

Robert Benchley

14.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

15.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

16.

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

17.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

18.

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

Kemp, Jack

19.

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

20.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Proverb, American

22.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

23.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

24.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

25.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

26.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

27.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

Weil, Simone

29.

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

30.

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

Sam Ewing

31.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

32.

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

Thomas A. Edison

33.

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

Oakley, Ann

34.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

35.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

38.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

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

40.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

41.

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

42.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

43.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

45.

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

Escher, M. C.

46.

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

Shakarian, David

47.

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

48.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

49.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

50.

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