Motivational Quotes

Work

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

- Sir William Osler

Best Quotes about Work

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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 brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Ogden Nash

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

Carty, Margaret

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom