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

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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

LeMond, Greg

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

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Paterno, Joe

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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