Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

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

Slick, Grace

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

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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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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

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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 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

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

David McCullough

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Riley, Pat

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Halas, George

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.