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

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

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Don Marquis

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Foster, Jodie

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Blow, Susan

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Ruskin, John

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Parkinson's Law

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom