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

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

Twain, Mark

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Henry David Thoreau

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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 never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.