Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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.

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

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Holtz, Lou

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

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Maurois, Andre

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Carty, Margaret

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy