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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Confucius

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Ashford, Evelyn

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Marquis, Don

21.

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

Foster, Jodie

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

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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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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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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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 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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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Garfield, James A.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Angelou, Maya

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi