Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Stengel, Casey

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

14.

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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Maurois, Andre

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

27.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Voltaire

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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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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Work is a four letter word!

35.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Bible

40.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Thomas A. Edison

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Halas, George

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.