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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Book, William Frederick

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Barack Obama

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Blow, Susan

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Michelangelo

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

David McCullough

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James M. Barrie

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.