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

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Twain, Mark

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Picasso, Pablo

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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.

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

Halas, George

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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

Michelangelo

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

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

Rutte, Martin

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Herold, Don

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph