Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thomas Carlyle

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

11.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

12.

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

Don Marquis

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Escher, M. C.

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Thomas A. Edison

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Keller, Helen

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

31.

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

Halas, George

33.

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

Foster, Jodie

34.

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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

49.

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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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