Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Barack Obama

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Peter Drucker

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Thomas Carlyle

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bible

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey