Motivational Quotes

Work

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Twain, Mark

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Rutte, Martin

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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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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 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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.