Motivational Quotes

Work

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

- William Lyon Phelps

Best Quotes about Work

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

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Hill, Napoleon

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

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

Michelangelo

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Romer, Frank

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Peter Drucker

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Keller, Helen

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

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

Richard Bach

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Gorky, Maxim

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.