Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Work

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

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

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

14.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

15.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Michelangelo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Work is a four letter word!

26.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas A. Edison

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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

Ogden Nash

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Shakarian, David

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

Proverb, American

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

David McCullough

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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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan