Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Keller, Helen

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Shakarian, David

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

David McCullough

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

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

Riley, Pat

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

James M. Barrie

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

Maurois, Andre

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Richard Bach

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis