Motivational Quotes

Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Carty, Margaret

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

11.

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

Garfield, James A.

12.

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

Howard Newton

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

17.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

18.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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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.

21.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

22.

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

Keller, Helen

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

25.

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

26.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

27.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

29.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

30.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

31.

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

32.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

33.

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

34.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

35.

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

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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

37.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

38.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

39.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

42.

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

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

45.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

46.

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.

47.

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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

49.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

50.

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