Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

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

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

Paterno, Joe

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

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

Slick, Grace

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

Twain, Mark

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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 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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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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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.