Work Quotes: Inspiring Words for Professional Success
Fueling Motivation: Uplifting Work Quotes
Work is an integral part of our lives, shaping our careers, and contributing to our personal growth. It’s important to find inspiration and motivation in our professional endeavors, overcoming challenges and striving for success. In this collection of work quotes, we explore the power of positive thinking, determination, and perseverance in achieving our goals. Let these quotes uplift and fuel your motivation, reminding you of the value and satisfaction that comes from dedicated work.
Embracing the Journey: Quotes that Ignite Passion
As you navigate your professional journey, allow these insightful quotes to inspire and guide you. From renowned thinkers, successful entrepreneurs, and influential figures, these quotes encapsulate the essence of work, dedication, and achievement. Let them remind you of the importance of passion, resilience, and continuous growth as you pursue your professional aspirations.
It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.
Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.
I mean I don’t really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you’re very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn’t park anywhere near the place.
If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you – like a fever.
My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‘All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.’
Life is too short to work so hard.
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
It was a privilege and an honor to work alongside Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Working with people at the top of their game was like a master class.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
Most of us have embraced digital technology, and depend on it more and more in our daily lives, both at home and at work.
I’m thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the ’60s.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.
It’s a good feeling to know you’ve had a good day at work.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.
If you work hard and enjoy what you are doing and go after your dreams anything is possible.
I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness – and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them.
Whatever I try to do, I always try to give it my best and try to be a killer because, at the end of the day, if you don’t work hard, you are not going to get food on your table.
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
I’m coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don’t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That’s how it is.
Know what it is that drives you – motivates you – and pursue it. Endeavor to work to make it happen.
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don’t normally use.
We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.
It’s a great feeling when your work is appreciated.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Many hands make light work.
Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it.
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.
I always got my work done before playing.
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Anything is possible if you’re willing to work for it.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
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.
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
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.
No, I don’t believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you’re going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
Sticking to good habits can be hard work, and mistakes are part of the process. Don’t declare failure simply because you messed up or because you’re having trouble reaching your goals. Instead, use your mistakes as opportunities to grow stronger and become better.
You’ve got to put in the work. And you’ve got to play with confidence. You’ve got to believe in yourself.
Here’s the thing – if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it’s exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won’t work after that.
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don’t wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
I’m the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don’t even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
I try to work and enjoy life, and that’s about all.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
I think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
I always wanted my partner to be a simple person. She can do what she wants, wear what she wants, work wherever she wants.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
I’m not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.
I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
The secret was to just be cool, stay in God’s graces, and work it out.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.
Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability – the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy – to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.
For me, I know that people always expect me to be perfect, so when I’m not perfect, it’s really frustrating. I’m really hard on myself and want things to work out right away.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’
I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don’t speak it fluently. I’m ashamed of that.
Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
Management must manage!
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist. It’s a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.
I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.
I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.
A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that’s why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness… but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
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.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.
I never do anything half-heartedly. I will continue to work hard and play hard and do everything I can to be successful, whatever I do.
I owe my success to all my teammates. It is the result of the team work.
I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.
It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.
I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there’s less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
It is teamwork that makes the dream work.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
Work is much more fun than fun.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
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.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
My dad said, ‘Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.’ My mom said, ‘Always be yourself.’ She always told me only God can judge me.
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.’
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you’ll achieve it.
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I’d rather spend my energy smiling.
Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.
I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They’ve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
I’ve done a lot of work to get where I’m at, but I have to keep working.
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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.
I’m confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key… I’m strict about my work goals and training.
Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.
Life wasn’t easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
He is one of the finest and kindest human beings I have come across. When you meet him, you will understand why he is the Jackie Chan. It’s not just for his work but also the kind of person he is.
You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged… we want to give them new music.
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans – the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
I think about my work every minute of the day.
Quality is pride of workmanship.
It’s an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
If my kid couldn’t draw I’d make sure that my kitchen magnets didn’t work.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
I always tell people that this is a really simple deal: Work hard. If you work hard, follow what’s required and set your priorities right, then you can really perform without taking shortcuts. If you’re taking shortcuts, you can’t be free.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn’t work out, it’s another nightmare for me.
Honor lies in honest toil.
Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.
All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
We have much work ahead, to stand still.
A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
It’s not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it’s that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you’re pushing yourself to do it.
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
I’m working myself to death.
I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
We all have a responsibility to try and make this world better, whether it’s through our work, the causes we champion, the way that we treat people, or the values we impart to the next generation.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
My work is a game, a very serious game.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
Liquid architecture. It’s like jazz – you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it’s a way of – for me, it’s a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Through a long and painful process, I’ve learned that happiness is an inside job – not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I’ve become a different and better person – not perfect, but still a work in progress.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.
If you want peace work for justice.
My life isn’t focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I’m doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.
One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
I couldn’t sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
Give me love and work – these two only.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.
If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
As chefs, especially pastry chefs, your creativity plays such an important part in your daily work. We truly do have a blank canvas to work with every time we create a new dish.
You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.
The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Work alone is noble.
Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.
You can be a pretty face, but if you’re not a nice person, it just doesn’t work. I’m not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I’m all right. If you’re a nice person, it definitely helps.
A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
I’m thankful because all the hard work and sacrifices were worth it in the end.
If you have a dream, it’s definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
We should always look upon ourselves as God’s servants, placed in God’s world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
If you’re not willing to put in the hard work, to endure and fail, there’s no point. You win only if you’re willing to do whatever it takes.
I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.
My story is going to be completely different than someone else’s story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do.
I was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
I work to stay alive.
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don’t speak it fluently. I’m ashamed of that.
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Good work has a snowball effect, it keeps leading to more good work.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ‘Get up early, work late – and strike oil.’
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.
Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it’s a choice.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it’s very relaxed and chill. I’m just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
Life is about growth and exploration, not achieving a fixed state of balance. You have a very limited time on earth to experience all that you can. Figuring out how to squeeze the most out of your family, work, and spirituality is your life’s purpose. Go do it.
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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.
If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.
Young people are threatened… by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don’t take anything too seriously, it’ll all work out in the end.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
I tend to be so lost in the work that I don’t notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, ‘Beautiful day, wasn’t it?’ and I’ll say, ‘Was it?’ as I won’t have noticed the real world at all.
There’s no right way or wrong way to work. There’s only your way.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
I’ve worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I’ve also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it’s important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I’ve been helped a lot in my life.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
It’s the best feeling when you wake up and it’s warm and cozy, and you don’t have to go to work.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
You see opportunity… Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you’re ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
People can say what they want, but at the end of the day, I’m going to keep working on my game. I always know I have things to work on.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they’ve done for our family.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Increasingly, the work we do is enabled more and more by new IT, including automation, robotics, and intelligent platforms.
I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what’s the point. You can’t take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.
Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don’t ourselves experience.
I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.
While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you’ve got the confidence and the work ethic, you can make any dream come true.
There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there’s no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.
Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
You will have ups and downs – but believe anything is possible. With hard work, it can come off.
I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.
Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.
It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude… Don’t complain; just work harder… Never give up.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
When you see validation for a life’s work and dedication, it’s a beautiful day.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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.
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
I am really excited and thankful for opportunity to work with Cotto Promotions, Tidal and Roc Nation.
Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.
Our work is never over.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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.
Some of our finest work comes through service to others.
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.
You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get better.
I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.
I try to keep in mind that it’s a long journey. It’s not a race. It’s about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that’s all I really want to do… and pay my bills.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life’s work.
I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that’s fine.
Success doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You’re only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.
I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.
My dad said to me, ‘Work hard and be patient.’ It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
I’ve got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did – his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work – just unbelievable energy.
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top – in business or in sports.
To have faith doesn’t mean you get any less frustrated when you don’t do your best, but you know that it’s not life and death. Take what you’re given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you’re being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you’re putting positive energy into the world, and you’re appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it’ll work out.
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.
When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I’m truly living.
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.
No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
It’s not like after winning an award, your job is done and you can relax. You still have to work hard.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
For me, the main thing is to continue to work, continue to grind on everything and stay focused.
Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don’t know how to feel good about the work you’re doing or the life you’re leading.
Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
I will continue to work hard until I get to where I want to be.
It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
To say, ‘well done’ to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
You only do good work when you’re taking risks and pushing yourself.
Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
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.
I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
The world’s pretty big. I have to see everything, do everything, eat everything. You’ll never be as young as you are right now, so while your legs still work, while you still have the breath in your lungs, go. At the end of our lives, we only regret the things we didn’t do.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.
Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe. When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There’s no formulas. It’s all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever.
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they’re over-the-hill at age 50, I don’t understand it.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
If you want to work in engineering and to have an impact that’s global, come work in the aerospace sector.
My favorite thing is when we lift a trophy. Afterward, we can have a picture of us lifting a trophy. And that picture shows a lot of work, a lot of difficulty and a lot of sacrifice together.
I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn’t work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he’s somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.
You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you’d like to have it done. And I’ve always been able to surround myself with really good people.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
If you work hard, nothing is impossible.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
One of the very rewarding aspects of my work has been the interaction with a superb group of colleagues and friends in the atmospheric sciences community.
I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.
There is no short-cut to success. Whether you want to be an engineer, a charted accountant or a fashion model you must work hard.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
In conclusion, work is a significant part of our lives, and finding motivation and inspiration is key to achieving success and personal fulfillment. These work quotes remind us of the power of positive thinking, perseverance, and embracing the journey. Let them serve as a source of encouragement, guiding you to approach your work with passion, determination, and a growth mindset. May these quotes inspire you to thrive in your professional endeavors and find fulfillment in the pursuit of your goals.
