Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Herbert, George

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Butler, Samuel

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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