Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Billings, Josh

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.

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

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

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

James M. Barrie

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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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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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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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

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Richard Bach

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Marquis, Don

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.