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

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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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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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

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Maurois, Andre

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Butler, Samuel

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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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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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh