Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

David McCullough

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

32.

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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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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