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

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

Peter Drucker

11.

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

Barzan, Gerald

12.

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

13.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

14.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

15.

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

Maurois, Andre

16.

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

Garfield, James A.

17.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

18.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

19.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

20.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

21.

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

22.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

23.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

24.

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

25.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

26.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

28.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

29.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

30.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

31.

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

Lombardi, Vince

32.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

33.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

34.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

35.

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

Reagan, Ronald

36.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

37.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

38.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

39.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

40.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

41.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

44.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

45.

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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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

47.

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

Romer, Frank

48.

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

49.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

50.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall