Motivational Quotes

Work

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

- Miyazawa, Kiichi

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Devine, Dan

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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

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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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 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

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Fox, Jim

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.