Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sand, George

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Carty, Margaret

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Riley, Pat

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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.

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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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

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

Halas, George

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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