Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lombardi, Vince

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Don Marquis

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Kemp, Jack

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Escher, M. C.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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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

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Blow, Susan

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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.

John Ruskin

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David