Motivational Quotes

Work

How do I work? I grope.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

11.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

12.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

13.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

16.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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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 question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

LeMond, Greg

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Holtz, Lou