Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Parkinson's Law

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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 way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Peter Drucker

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.