Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Halas, George

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

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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Twain, Mark

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

14.

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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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

18.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

19.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

20.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

21.

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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

23.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

24.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

25.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

26.

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

27.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

28.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

29.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

30.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

31.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

32.

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

Howard Newton

33.

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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Butterworth, Eric

39.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

40.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

41.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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

43.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

44.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

45.

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

Herold, Don

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.