Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Twain, Mark

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

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

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

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

11.

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

Lombardi, Vince

12.

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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

14.

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

Paterno, Joe

15.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

20.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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

23.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

25.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

28.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

29.

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

30.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

31.

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.

32.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

33.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

35.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Rutte, Martin

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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.

40.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

41.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

43.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

44.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning