Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Work

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Devine, Dan

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Marquis, Don

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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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

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Paterno, Joe

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Riley, Pat

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Work is a four letter word!

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

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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Diller, Phyllis

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.