Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Jones, Beverly

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

12.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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.

Robert Benchley

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

19.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Rohn, Jim

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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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

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, French

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous