Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hubbard, Elbert

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Paterno, Joe

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.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Comaneci, Nadia

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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

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

13.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

19.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

20.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

21.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

22.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Rivers, Joan

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Keller, Helen

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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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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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

45.

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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

49.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette