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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

Don Marquis

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

James M. Barrie

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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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

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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 can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Riley, Pat

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Anatole France