Motivational Quotes

Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Work

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

Marquis, Don

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

David McCullough

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

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Michelangelo

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Work is a four letter word!

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough