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

Work is a four letter word!

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

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Robert Morley

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

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Angelou, Maya

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Rohn, Jim

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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