Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

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

Gillis, Dobie

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Reagan, Ronald

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

12.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

13.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

14.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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.

18.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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.

20.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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

22.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

25.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

27.

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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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.

29.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

30.

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

Carty, Margaret

31.

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

40.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

41.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

42.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

45.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

46.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

47.

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

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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

49.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

50.

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