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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

10.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

11.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

12.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Weil, Simone

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Blow, Susan

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Frost, Robert

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

42.

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

Billings, Josh

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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

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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