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

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Escher, M. C.

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Book, William Frederick

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Twain, Mark

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Angelou, Maya

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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