Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

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

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Theodore Roosevelt

11.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

12.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

13.

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

Allen, James

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

17.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

18.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

24.

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

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

28.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

29.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

30.

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

31.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

37.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Sand, George

39.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

41.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

LeMond, Greg

43.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

44.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

45.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

47.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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