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

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Maurois, Andre

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Michelangelo

11.

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

Reagan, Ronald

12.

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

13.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

18.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

19.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

20.

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

Ford, Henry

21.

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

David Shore

22.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

26.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

27.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

28.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

Benchley, Robert

32.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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

39.

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

Lombardi, Vince

40.

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

41.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

42.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

43.

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

44.

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

Holtz, Lou

45.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

46.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

47.

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

48.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

49.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

50.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone