Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Austen, Jane

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Ford, Henry

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

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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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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.

Robert Benchley

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Devine, Dan

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

Carty, Margaret

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Marquis, Don

49.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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