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

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

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Paterno, Joe

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

32.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ruskin, John

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Dodge, B.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Proverb, French

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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'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

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette