Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Work

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

Henry David Thoreau

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

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

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Robert Morley

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

David McCullough

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Hal Lancaster

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Twain, Mark

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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