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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

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

Dodge, B.

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

27.

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

28.

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

Confucius

29.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

34.

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

Baldwin, James

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

38.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

43.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

44.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

48.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

49.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince