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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Marquis, Don

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Ford, Henry

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

Rohn, Jim

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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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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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

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Kemp, Jack

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Voltaire

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil