Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

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

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

Barack Obama

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

20.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

James M. Barrie

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Lombardi, Vince

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