Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mitchell, Warren

Best Quotes about Work

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Twain, Mark

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

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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

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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

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ruskin, John

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lombardi, Vince

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

34.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore