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 dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Comaneci, Nadia

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Don Marquis

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

34.

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

35.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Baldwin, James

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder