Motivational Quotes

Work

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

Milsap, Ronnie

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Ogden Nash

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.