Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Lowell, James Russell

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Butler, Samuel

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Devine, Dan

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

30.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Herbert, George

35.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

Ogden Nash

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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

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne