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 alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fox, Jim

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Billings, Josh

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Work is a four letter word!

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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.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Bible

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Stengel, Casey