The origin of Bosses Day dates back to 1958. Patricia Bays Haroski, an employee at State Farm Insurance Company in Illinois, registered it with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

1. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve through not dying. "
   --Woody Allen

2. "Even a mosquito doesn't get a slap on the back until it starts to work."
   -- Anonymous

3. "The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
   --Richard Bach

4. "Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work--and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
   

5. "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
   --J.M. Barrie

6. "You've achieved success in your field when you dont know whether what youre doing is work or play. "
   --Warren Beatty

7. "Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all cost of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. "
   --Thomas Arnold Bennett

   
   

8. "It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade. "
   --Henry Ward Beecher

9. "When God wanted sponges and oysters, He made them and put one on a rock and the other in the mud. When He made man, He did not make him to be a sponge or an oyster; He made him with feet and hands, and head and heart, and vital blood, and a place to use them, and He said to him, Go Work. "
   --Henry Ward Beecher

10. "You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive.They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them. "
    --Carisa Bianchi

11. "The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them. "
    --A Harvey Block

12. "Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. "
    --David Bly

13. "I slip from workaholic to bum real easy. "
    --Matthew Broderick

14. "In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first-ahead of personal glory. "
    --Paul Bear Bryant

15. "Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree. "
    --Dr. Louis J. Camuti

16. "Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. "
    --Thomas Carlyle

17. "There's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point? "
    --Jim Carrey

18. "The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. "
    --Margaret Carty

19. "If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. "
    --Chinese Proverb

20. "You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough. "
    --Robert Crandall

21. "Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. "
    --Bette Davis

22. "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 "
    --Bette Davis

23. "No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything. "
    --B. Dodge

24. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. "
    --Thomas Edison

25. "There is no substitute for hard work. "
    --Thomas Edison

26. " The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest."
    

27. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. "
    --Albert Einstein

28. "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. "
    --Albert Einstein

29. "The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. "
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson
    
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    --Henry Ford

30. "No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. "
    --Sigmund Freud

31. "People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. "
    --Dr. Allan Fromme

32. "The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. "
    --Robert Frost

33. "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "
    --Robert Frost

34. "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. "
    --Indira Gandhi

35. "Lose this day loitering, 'Twill be the same story Tomorrow "-- and the next more dilatory. Then indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting overdays! Are you ernest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or dream you can - begin it! Courage has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage, and the mind grows heated. Begin it, and the work will be completed. "
    --Goethe

36. "First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. "
    --Greek Proverb

37. " If work were nice, the rich would not have left it to the poor."
    -- Haitian proverb

38. "It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life [that] those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people. "
    --Brutus Hamilton

39. "Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be. "
    --Napoleon Hill

40. "All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims. "
    --Lou Holtz

41. "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. "
    --Elbert Hubbard

42. " All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

44. "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. "
    --Vince Lombardi

45. "Win together, lose together, play together, stay together. "
    --Debra Mancuso

46. "When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose? "
    --Don Marquis

47. "I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt. "
    --Charles Horace Mayo

48. "Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. "
    --David O. McKay

49. "Vision is where tomorrow begins, for it expresses what you and others who share the vision will be working hard to create. Since most people don't take the time to think systematically about the future, those who do, and who base their strategies and actions on their visions, have inordinate power to shape the future. "
    --Burt Nanus

50. "If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. "
    --Ogden Nash

51. "The doer alone learneth. "
    --Friedrich Nietzsche

52. "You must always work not just within but below your means If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. "
    --Pablo Picasso

53. "Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late. "
    --Katharinde Susannah Prichard

54. "For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. "
    --Rainer Maria Rilke

55. "I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."
    --Carl Sandburg

56. "The phrase "working mother" is redundant. "
    --Jane Sellman

57. "When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. "
    --Bernard Shaw

58. "All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons. "
    --Marsha Sinetar

59. "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."
    --Thomas Szasz, M.D.

60. "The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves. "
    --Brian Tracy

61. "Early to bed, early to rise Work like hell and advertise."
    --Ted Turner

62. "Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it Autograph your work with excellence. "
    --Unknown

63. "The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. "
    --Unknown

64. "But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously."
    -- Paul Wiener

65. "The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job."
    -- Edith Wharton

66. "A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune."
    -- Richard Whately

67. "I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about."
    --A.L. Williams

68. "It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit. "
    --Robert Yates