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

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

Barack Obama

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Carty, Margaret

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

17.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

21.

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 suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

27.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Carnegie, Andrew

29.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

39.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.