Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

13.

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

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

27.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

34.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

46.

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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

David Shore

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.