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 secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Carty, Margaret

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

11.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

12.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Dodge, B.

14.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Blow, Susan

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb, French

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

33.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Foster, Jodie

40.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald