Motivational Quotes

Work

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

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

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Romer, Frank

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Michelangelo

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Frost, Robert

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Riley, Pat

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Riley, Pat

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

27.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

34.

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

Halas, George

35.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul