Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Robert Morley

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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 world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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 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

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

James M. Barrie

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Ford, Henry

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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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

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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.

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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