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

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Foster, Jodie

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Peter Drucker

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

19.

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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Devine, Dan

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ogden Nash

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Keller, Helen

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

44.

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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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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

Parkinson's Law