Resources > Quotes > Work

Work Quotes

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don’t allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.

Hard work never killed anybody. But why take a chance?

He conquers who endures.

He that rideth the fence, ripeth his pants!

He who has begun is half done. Dare to be wise; begin!

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

I came, I tooled, I built.

I have learned that a pretty large chunk of adult life (at least the office part) is spent battling office machines. They are formidable opponents.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I thought I wanted a career. Turns out, I just wanted a paycheck.

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

I'm a great believer in luck, and the harder I work, the more I have of it.

I've always preferred to have wings than to have things.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it to themselves.

If we knew what were doing, it wouldn't be called Research.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

If you are to hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

If you do all you're capable of, you'll literally astonish yourself.

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

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end."

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

It is only through constant efforts to better what we're already capable of doing that we are able to create amazing results.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

Light tomorrow with today.

Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.

My Husband, the "not-so-handy" handyman

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

OF COURSE I DON'T LOOK BUSY... I DID IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

panic, chaos, disorder...my work here is done.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely... but it rocks absolutely too!

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Remember this,--that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Retirement: when you stop living at work and begin to work at living.

Start from the bottom up and work like a son of a gun.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work extremely well.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

The ocean is made of drops.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of fruition is eternal.

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

There's a "tired" in "retired".

They say God only gives you what you can handle. Well, I must be made of steal.

To begin is half the work.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. --Sir Winston Churchill

To undertake is to achieve.

Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for the positions at the top.

Very often it happens that a discovery is made whilst working upon quite another problem.

When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

When you love your job you never have to go to work.

When you start to work ..your Salary goal should be more than your age...after a while.

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

Wow, Sugar Puss, you've certainly been a busy little bee.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

“ This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.” -George Bernard Shaw

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”

View Work Related Products

Contribute Resources

Add your tips, poems, quotes, or title ideas to share with other members.

Add A Resource