Motivational Quotes

Work

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

- Milsap, Ronnie

Best Quotes about Work

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

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

Rivers, Joan

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

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

10.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Carty, Margaret

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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 sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

25.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Work is a four letter word!

28.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

32.

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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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.

34.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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...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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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

40.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

45.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Richard Bach

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Paterno, Joe

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell