Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Riley, Pat

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stengel, Casey

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Lowell, James Russell

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.