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

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

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Riley, Pat

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Wilde, Oscar

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Michelangelo

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Lowell, James Russell

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Marquis, Don

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

Lennon, John

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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

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Carty, Margaret

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Escher, M. C.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Ogden Nash

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.