Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hubbard, L. Ron

Best Quotes about Work

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.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

Robert Morley

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

Jong, Erica

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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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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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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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Rivers, Joan