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

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

David Shore

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

Ruskin, John

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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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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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Bible

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Work alone is noble.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Carty, Margaret

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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

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

Don Marquis

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

Marquis, Don

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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

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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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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks