Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Oakley, Ann

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Confucius

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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 a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

39.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible