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

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

Allen, James

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Peter Drucker

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

Foster, Jodie

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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

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

Gillis, Dobie

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Thomas A. Edison

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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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.

Sinise, Gary

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Holtz, Lou