Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Lombardi, Vince

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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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.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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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

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Bible

30.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

31.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

35.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

37.

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

Rutte, Martin

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard