Motivational Quotes

Work

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about 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

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Thomas A. Edison

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

10.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

11.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

12.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

15.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

David McCullough

18.

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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

22.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

25.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

30.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

33.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

34.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Ruskin, John

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

Kemp, Jack

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

39.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

44.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

45.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Paterno, Joe

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.