Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Foster, Jodie

Best Quotes about Work

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Keller, Helen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Parkinson, Joseph

10.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

12.

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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

James M. Barrie

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

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

Devine, Dan

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

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

40.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

41.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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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