Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mansfield, Katherine

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Book, William Frederick

10.

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

11.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

12.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

13.

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

David Shore

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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

16.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

17.

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

Lombardi, Vince

18.

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

19.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

20.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

21.

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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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

24.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

25.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

26.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

30.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

31.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

32.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

33.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

40.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Work is a four letter word!