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 secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Bhagavad Gita

10.

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

Huxley, Aldous

11.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

12.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

14.

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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Rohn, Jim

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

18.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

19.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

24.

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

25.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

26.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Proverb, American

29.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

30.

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

Gillis, Dobie

31.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

32.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

34.

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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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

36.

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

Carty, Margaret

37.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

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

Kemp, Jack

39.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

43.

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

44.

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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

46.

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

Shakarian, David

47.

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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

49.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Thatcher, Margaret