Motivational Quotes

Work

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

- David Shore

Best Quotes about Work

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Devine, Dan

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Rutte, Martin

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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