Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Bible

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Peter Drucker

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

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 effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Escher, M. C.

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