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

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

LeMond, Greg

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

10.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

11.

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

Barzan, Gerald

12.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

13.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

14.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

16.

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

Holtz, Lou

17.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

18.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

19.

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

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

23.

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

Butterworth, Eric

24.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

26.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

27.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

28.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

30.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

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

32.

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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

34.

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

Henry David Thoreau

35.

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

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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

40.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

41.

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

Barack Obama

42.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

43.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

44.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

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

46.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

48.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.