Motivational Quotes

Work

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Lombardi, Vince

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

24.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Don Marquis

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Oakley, Ann

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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