Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

- Mccarthy, Mary

Best Quotes about Work

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

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Book, William Frederick

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

17.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

18.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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

20.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Richard Bach

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

25.

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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

28.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

29.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

30.

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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

32.

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 team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

34.

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

Carty, Margaret

35.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

36.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

40.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Ford, Henry

43.

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

Voltaire

45.

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

Barack Obama

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

47.

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

Halas, George

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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