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

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

Holtz, Lou

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Ashford, Evelyn

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Herbert, George

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Shakarian, David

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Riley, Pat

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.