Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

James M. Barrie

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

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

Keller, Helen

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Holtz, Lou

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Paterno, Joe

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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.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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

Bob Ross

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

John Ruskin

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

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Oakley, Ann

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.