Motivational Quotes

Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about Work

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Don Marquis

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Proverb

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Berra, Yogi

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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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.

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.