Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Jong, Erica

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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

Frost, Robert

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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