Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Drucker, Peter F.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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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

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Lombardi, Vince

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Book, William Frederick

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

42.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Keller, Helen