Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Jones, Beverly

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

13.

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Riley, Pat

20.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Rutte, Martin

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

23.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

24.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

26.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

27.

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

28.

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

Foster, Jodie

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

31.

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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

35.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

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

40.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Proverb, French

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe