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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Parkinson's Law

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Garfield, James A.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Proverb, American

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Bob Ross

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

Devine, Dan

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Keller, Helen

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

41.

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

Escher, M. C.

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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.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett