Work Quotes

"Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it."
Charles L. Allen

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo

"The work praises the man."
Irish Proverb

"People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do."
Elbert Hubbard

"Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks."
Nan S. Russell, from Wishing and Hoping

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

"If you love what you do, then it is no longer work. The money you earn is secondary when you love your work. Money can never buy happiness, or peace of mind."
Catherine Pulsifer, from LOVE WHAT YOU DO

"The fellow who doesn't need a boss is often selected to be one."
Christopher Morley

"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work."
Harry S. Truman

"If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life."
Confucius

"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."
Brian Tracy

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

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

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

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

"A team based environment demands that you make responsible decisions; it requires you to take charge of your career. It requires you to develop excellent interpersonal skills because you have to interact at a much different level with your team members. No longer is it just you and your job!"
Catherine Pulsifer, from Wings for Work

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

"Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about."
Earl Nightingale

"I don't know anything of 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

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
James Matthew Barrie

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
Margaret Fuller

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now."
P. T. Barnum

"Give yourself something to work toward--constantly."
Mary Kay Ash

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."
Abraham Maslow

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."
Richard Bach

"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there’s so little competition."
Elbert Hubbard

"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

"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money."
Irish Blessing

"While some people can’t wait until their retirement, others feel cheated that they have to retire at all."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Authors Introduction to Wings for Work

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope and work."
Daniel Hudson Burnham

"You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Good-bye Manager, Hello Coach!

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
Dale Carnegie

"You can show up for work every day…but showing up does not mean success in your work."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Wings for Work, why write about it?

"Good fortune does not happen because of luck. When someone gets a promotion, some people see this as luck. If they took a closer look, however, they would soon recognize how much harder successful people have worked, how much effort they've given, and how much dedication and commitment they've demonstrated in order to go that extra mile."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Luck, Do You Have It?

"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!"
Og Mandino

"In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work."
John Ruskin

"Many hands make light work."
English Proverb

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing - the result."
Vince Lombardi

"Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about."
Earl Nightingale

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed."
Yanni

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."
Oprah Winfrey

"Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe."
Norman Vincent Peale

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

"The best organizations I've worked with sweat the small stuff."
Robin Sharma

"If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
Henry Ford

Working Together Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. -Henry Ford