Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

19.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Twain, Mark

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Rutte, Martin

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Book, William Frederick

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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