Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Ford, Henry

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Blow, Susan

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Robert Benchley

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Voltaire

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Prince, Ray

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Fox, Jim

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

James M. Barrie

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

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

Riley, Pat

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata