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

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Shakarian, David

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Johnson, Samuel

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Lennon, John

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

11.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

12.

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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

20.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

21.

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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

23.

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

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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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

28.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Rutte, Martin

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Carty, Margaret

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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