Motivational Quotes

Work

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

10.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

11.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

12.

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

Jones, Beverly

13.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

15.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

19.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

Angelou, Maya

21.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

22.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Thomas A. Edison

24.

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

Garfield, James A.

25.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

26.

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

27.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

36.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

37.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

40.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

41.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

42.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

43.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

47.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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 work praises the man.