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 achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Baldwin, James

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

10.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

14.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

20.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

21.

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

Foster, Jodie

22.

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

Butterworth, Eric

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

25.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

26.

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

Jones, Beverly

27.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

29.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

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

Howard Newton

31.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

32.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

33.

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

David Shore

34.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

35.

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.

36.

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

Ford, Henry

37.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

38.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

39.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

Blow, Susan

41.

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

42.

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

Peter Drucker

43.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

44.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

45.

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

Parkinson's Law

46.

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

47.

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

Don Marquis

48.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

49.

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

Devine, Dan

50.

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