Motivational Quotes

Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Johnson, James Weldon

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Riley, Pat

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Voltaire

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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

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Twain, Mark

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

Keller, Helen

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

David Shore

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

Angelou, Maya

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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 for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Devine, Dan

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Peter Drucker

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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.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Paterno, Joe