Motivational Quotes

Work

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

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

Shakarian, David

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

Elbert Hubbard

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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.

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Richard Bach

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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 great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

35.

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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