Motivational Quotes

Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Jones, Beverly

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Herbert, George

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Book, William Frederick

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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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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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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 only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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.

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Garfield, James A.

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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.

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

Allen, James

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Richard Bach

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.