Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Ford, Henry

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Ashford, Evelyn

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Parkinson's Law

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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

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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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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.