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

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

Riley, Pat

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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 dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Kemp, Jack

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

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Thomas A. Edison

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom