Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Kipling, Rudyard

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

11.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

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

Parkinson's Law

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

18.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Thomas Carlyle

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

26.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

29.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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

33.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Butler, Samuel

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Robert Benchley

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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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

45.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

46.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

48.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Syrus, Publilius