Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Riley, Pat

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

Prince, Ray

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

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

Peter Drucker

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

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Austen, Jane

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

23.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Twain, Mark

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Carty, Margaret

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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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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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.

43.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Herbert, George

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.