Motivational Quotes

Work

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Work

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Howard Newton

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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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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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 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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Gillis, Dobie

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.