Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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.

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

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

10.

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

11.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

12.

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

Foster, Jodie

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Holtz, Lou

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

25.

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

Billings, Josh

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

28.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

30.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Maurois, Andre

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

35.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

40.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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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

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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