Motivational Quotes

Work

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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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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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Ford, Henry

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Richard Bach

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Slick, Grace

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Baldwin, James

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Lombardi, Vince

39.

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Keller, Helen

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Michelangelo

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd