Motivational Quotes

Work

We work to become, not to acquire.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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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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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.