Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Dodge, B.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ruskin, John

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Thomas Carlyle

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote