Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Devine, Dan

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

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

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Herbert, George

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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

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

Devine, Dan