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

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

Ogden Nash

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Keller, Helen

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Escher, M. C.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Riley, Pat

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Prince, Ray

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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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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