Motivational Quotes

Work

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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

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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 work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Paterno, Joe

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Confucius

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Proverb

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl