Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Keller, Helen

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Frost, Robert

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

Blow, Susan

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Twain, Mark

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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 joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

James M. Barrie

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

Carty, Margaret

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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