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 relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Marquis, Don

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

24.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Butler, Samuel

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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

49.

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