Motivational Quotes

Work

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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

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.

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

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Herbert, George

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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

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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

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ford, Henry

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

Bob Ross

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Pavlova, Anna