Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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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

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Richard Bach

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robert Morley

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

David McCullough

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Michelangelo

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

31.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

34.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

45.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

48.

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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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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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