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

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

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Work is a four letter word!

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

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

Peter Drucker

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

11.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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 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.

28.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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

30.

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

Berra, Yogi

31.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Parkinson's Law

37.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

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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

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

Keller, Helen