Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mansfield, Katherine

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dodge, B.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

David Shore

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bible

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De