Welcome to our curated collection of work quotes! Whether you’re looking for inspiration to boost your productivity, seeking motivation to excel in your career, or simply in need of some words of wisdom to share with colleagues and friends, you’ve come to the right place. In this compilation, you’ll find a diverse range of quotes related to the world of work and employment. These quotes span a wide spectrum, covering topics like dedication, perseverance, success, teamwork, and the pursuit of one’s passions. We believe that these quotes can serve as valuable sources of insight, encouragement, and reflection as you navigate the ever-evolving landscape of your professional journey.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Stephen Hawking
I believe in stopping work and eating lunch. L’Wren Scott
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families. Melissa Bean
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort. William Gibson
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. Ann Landers
You’re blessed if you have the strength to work. Mahalia Jackson
There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas A. Edison
Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work. Neil Armstrong
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus
Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden. Orson Scott Card
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. Ginger Rogers
Give yourself something to work toward – constantly. Mary Kay Ash
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. Jean de la Bruyere
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
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. Booker T. Washington
Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. Marc Chagall
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Vincent Van Gogh
Quality is everyone’s responsibility. W. Edwards Deming
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. Elbert Hubbard
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you. Leigh Steinberg
After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not. Bill Budge
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come. Lawrence Welk
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Arnold J. Toynbee
Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. George Burns
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Samuel Butler
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
The harder you work… and visualize something, the luckier you get. Seal
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it. Walt Disney
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. Charles Kettering
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born. Anna Held
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. Federico Fellini
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
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt
I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped. Joyce Brothers
Inspiration comes of working every day. Charles Baudelaire
I’ve learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work. Louis C. K.
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. Henry J. Kaiser
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. Byron Dorgan
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. Dmitri Mendeleev
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. A. A. Milne
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. William Feather
Every man loves what he is good at. Thomas Shadwell
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde
All things are difficult before they are easy. Thomas Fuller
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. Max Beerbohm
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. Chanakya
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working. Will Smith
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator. Joseph Murray
Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee Iacocca
It’s like Forrest Gump said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates.’ Your career is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That’s the exciting part – it’s an adventure in itself. Nick Carter
If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue. Peter Ustinov
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. C. Northcote Parkinson
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi
By the work one knows the workman. Jean de La Fontaine
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! David O. McKay
There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. A. R. Ammons
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. Milton Friedman
It’s easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don’t change, your field changes around you. Walter Gilbert
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. Evan Esar
Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running. Gary Sinise
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey
One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase. Harold Wilson
Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else. George Halas
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. Harold S. Geneen
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed. Russel Honore
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t. Thomas S. Monson
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Horace
Honor lies in honest toil. Grover Cleveland
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. Ramakrishna
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. Napoleon Hill
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. Ray Kroc
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. Pearl S. Buck
The idea of having a steady job is appealing. Robin Williams
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’ Don Marquis
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working. Don Shula
For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I’ve been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship. Chris Hadfield
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. Donald Norman
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. Harry Golden
Honest labor bears a lovely face. Thomas Dekker
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. Lucille Ball
Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard. George Lucas
The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato
The pay is good and I can walk to work. John F. Kennedy
I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave. Joseph Campbell
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. Abu Bakr
