Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas A. Edison

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

David Shore

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

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

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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

14.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

15.

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

Carty, Margaret

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

17.

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

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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

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Maurois, Andre

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Riley, Pat

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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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

48.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.