Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Halas, George

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Dodge, B.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Twain, Mark

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Rutte, Martin

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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

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Peter Drucker

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

Foster, Jodie

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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