Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Riley, Pat

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Riley, Pat

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

Slick, Grace

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Dodge, B.

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Halas, George

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Rutte, Martin

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Fox, Jim

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

41.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Confucius

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince