Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Best Quotes about Work

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

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

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

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Richard Bach

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Riley, Pat

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan