Motivational Quotes

Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

- Streep, Meryl

Best Quotes about Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Proverb, American

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Herold, Don

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

Lennon, John

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

Keller, Helen

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Berra, Yogi

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Proverb, French

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Ruskin, John

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.