Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

- Ashford, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Work

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Don Marquis

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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 don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

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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

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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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.