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

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Riley, Pat

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Elbert Hubbard

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Prince, Ray

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

David McCullough

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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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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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

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Rivers, Joan

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Robert Benchley

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

Ruskin, John

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Sand, George