Motivational Quotes

Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about Work

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Paterno, Joe

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Rutte, Martin

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robert Morley

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Parkinson's Law

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

LeMond, Greg

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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.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Herbert, George

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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

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Voltaire

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

Twain, Mark

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen