Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ruskin, John

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Twain, Mark

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Howard Newton

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Kemp, Jack

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Robert Morley

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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Work is a four letter word!

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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 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 is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mitchell, Warren

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert