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 is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Proverb

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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

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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 all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Allen, James

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Riley, Pat

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

35.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Dodge, B.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Butler, Samuel

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Peter Drucker

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

Jong, Erica

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty