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

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

Kemp, Jack

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

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

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Proverb

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

12.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Richard Bach

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Twain, Mark

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

20.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

30.

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

Blow, Susan

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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 make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Holtz, Lou

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William