Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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

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

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Don Marquis

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

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Angelou, Maya

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

James M. Barrie

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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

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

Peter Drucker

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Hill, Napoleon