Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

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

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

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

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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...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

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

Herbert, George

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

Shakarian, David

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

36.

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

Richard Bach

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin