Motivational Quotes

Work

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

- Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

Best Quotes about Work

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

David McCullough

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Michelangelo

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

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.

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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