Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Howard Newton

15.

Work is a four letter word!

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

18.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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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

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Butler, Samuel

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Weil, Simone

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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 --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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack