Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Work

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

LeMond, Greg

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Parkinson, Joseph

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Halas, George

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Devine, Dan

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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

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

32.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

42.

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

Howard Newton

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Lombardi, Vince

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.