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

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Riley, Pat

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

13.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

14.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

17.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

18.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

19.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

21.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

22.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

23.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

24.

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

25.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

26.

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

Riley, Pat

27.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

29.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

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

Shakarian, David

31.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

33.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

35.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

37.

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

Jones, Beverly

38.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

39.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

40.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

41.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

42.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

43.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

47.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

48.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

49.

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

50.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley