Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bob Ross

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Keller, Helen

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Don Marquis

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Johnson, James Weldon

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Riley, Pat

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

Ford, Henry

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Lennon, John

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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.

33.

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 highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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.