Work Quotes

• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Morning, Business, Words Of Wisdom

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• Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Nov 09, 2012

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

  William James

  Life, Hands, Mind

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  God, Technology, Offended You

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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  Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Square Deal". Theodore Roosevelt's speech to farmers at the New York State Agricultural Association in Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903.

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  The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Sarcasm, Boys

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Future, Entrepreneur, Degenerates

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• Work hard, don't quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and, always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.

  Michael Keaton

  Motivational, Moving On, Thankful

  "Michael Keaton Gave An Incredibly Personal Acceptance Speech About His Tough Childhood" by Kirsten Acuna, www.businessinsider.com. January 12, 2015.

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• The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Jobs

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• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Gary Player

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wrestling

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• I am exhausted if I don't work.

  Pablo Picasso

  Exhausted, Ifs

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• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Labor Day

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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• Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

  Horace

  Life, Hardship, Grants

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire ix, line 59, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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• The harder I work, the luckier I get.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

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• Work is love made visible.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspiring, Inspirational Life, Yoga

  The Prophet "OnWork" (1923)

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• The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Essays". Volume 2,

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• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Quality Not Quantity, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Young India”

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• The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.

  Chris Bollwage

  Motivational, Dream, Differences

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