Motivational Quotes

Work

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

- Tina Fey

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

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.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Confucius

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Riley, Pat

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Oakley, Ann

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work is a four letter word!

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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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

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bhagavad Gita

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.