Motivational Quotes

Work

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Riley, Pat

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

11.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Twain, Mark

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Devine, Dan

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

43.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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