Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Work

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.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Peter Drucker

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Henry David Thoreau

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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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 and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Riley, Pat

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi