Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

Voltaire

...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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Paterno, Joe

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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 fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Book, William Frederick

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

35.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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