Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Work

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

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

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

10.

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

Jones, Beverly

11.

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

12.

Work is a four letter word!

13.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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.

15.

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

Keller, Helen

16.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

17.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

18.

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

Book, William Frederick

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Elbert Hubbard

27.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

28.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

29.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

30.

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

Holtz, Lou

31.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

33.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

34.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

37.

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

Peter Drucker

39.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

40.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Weil, Simone

43.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

44.

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

45.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

46.

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

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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.

48.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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