Motivational Quotes

Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

- Proverb

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

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Book, William Frederick

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

11.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

12.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

13.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

15.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

18.

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

Prince, Ray

19.

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

20.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

21.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

22.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

23.

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

Stengel, Casey

24.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

25.

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

Riley, Pat

27.

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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

29.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

31.

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

32.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

33.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

34.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

35.

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

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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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

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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 champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

42.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

43.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

44.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

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

David McCullough

46.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

47.

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

Halas, George

48.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

49.

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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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