Motivational Quotes

Work

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Work

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

10.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

11.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

12.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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

Austen, Jane

15.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

16.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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

20.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

21.

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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

24.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

David Shore

28.

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

Holtz, Lou

29.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

30.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

31.

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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

35.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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

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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

40.

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

41.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

43.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

44.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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

49.

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