Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

22.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Weil, Simone

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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 one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Halas, George

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall