Top 646 Work Quotes

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
Don Herold
It is teamwork that makes the dream work.
Jay Rock
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
Gary Sinise
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
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.
Paul Ryan
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.
Ralph Bunche
Work is much more fun than fun.
Noel Coward
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.
Lao Tzu
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
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.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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.
Nate Robinson
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.’
Paul Theroux
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.
Calvin Coolidge
It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
Jeff Bezos
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.
Henry James
If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
Bob Hope
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.
Thomas J. Watson
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
Ann Landers
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.
Elon Musk
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.
Lee Trevino
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
Priyanka Chopra
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.
Phillip Sweet
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. Jerome
Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you’ll achieve it.
Emraan Hashmi
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
Eric Davis
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.
Tena Desae
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.
Josie Loren
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.
Rafael Nadal
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost
I’ve done a lot of work to get where I’m at, but I have to keep working.
Wiz Khalifa
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.
Gregor Mendel
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen
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.
Johnny Carson
I'm confident to say that if you want to grow in a prof

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.
Eliud Kipchoge
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.
Simon Mainwaring
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin Powell
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John Ruskin
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
Sholom Aleichem
If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.
Erin Heatherton
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.
Caitlyn Jenner
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
Dmitri Mendeleev
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.
Disha Patani
You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
John Mackey
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
John Gerzema
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.
P. J. O’Rourke
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.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Mary Kay Ash
We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged… we want to give them new music.
Lauren Jauregui
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa
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.
Willie Nelson
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
Dalai Lama
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
Thomas S. Monson
I think about my work every minute of the day.
Jeff Koons
Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. Edwards Deming
It’s an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.
Jencarlos Canela
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Margaret Thatcher
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.
Barack Obama