Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

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.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Bible

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Riley, Pat

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Herbert, George

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William