Motivational Quotes

Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Work

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Proverb, French

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

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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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.