Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Work

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Rivers, Joan

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

18.

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

Baldwin, James

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Proverb

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Kemp, Jack

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb