Motivational Quotes

Work

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Blow, Susan

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Stengel, Casey

10.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

11.

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

Riley, Pat

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

14.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

16.

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

17.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

18.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

19.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

20.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

21.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

22.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

23.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

24.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

25.

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

Michelangelo

26.

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

David Shore

27.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

29.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

30.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

32.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

38.

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

39.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

41.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

45.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

46.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

47.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.