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

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

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ford, Henry

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

Baldwin, James

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Blow, Susan

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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