Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Twain, Mark

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Michelangelo

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques