Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Foster, Jodie

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

15.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

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

Parkinson's Law

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Oprah Winfrey

21.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

22.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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.

27.

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

Bhagavad Gita

29.

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

30.

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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

34.

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

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

Keller, Helen

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Kipling, Rudyard

40.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

42.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

46.

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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Anatole France

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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