Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Milsap, Ronnie

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Halas, George

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Riley, Pat

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Angelou, Maya

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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.

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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 problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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