Work Quotes
To succeed in life you must be willing to work hard and put everything into a venture. Working consistently towards your goals and dreams unlocks the gate of success.
Getting great work done isn’t always just about be motivated, it’s also about properly defining your goals and setting yourself up in a productive work environment.
Below, we have compiled a list of inspirational work quotes and sayings to help you work smarter.
60 Motivational Work Quotes & Sayings
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “_Alexander Graham Bell
“Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don’t despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.” – Sanjo Jendayi
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” – Indira Gandhi
“No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” – Jonathan Sacks
“You learn the value of hard work by working hard.” – Unknown
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
_Thomas Edison
_Thomas Edison
“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” – Patrick Suskind
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”__Denis Waitley
“The future depends on what you do today.”__Mahatma Gandhi
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”__Confucius
“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
__William Patten
__William Patten
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”__Conrad Hilton
“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”__Elbert Hubbard
Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” – Harry Golden
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. Coco Chanel
What you don’t sweat out when you’re young will turn into tears when you’re old. Japanese proverb
“Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.” – Luther Campbell
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe.”_Abraham Lincoln
“When I meet succesful people I ask about 100 questions to find out who they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.” – Kiana Tom
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. Sarah Price
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
“Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.”_Henry L. Doherty
You just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. Elon Musk
“A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.”_Mildred Struven
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”__David Allen
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”__Vince Lombardi
“I have learned that real angels don’t have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days’ sweat.” – Richard Evans
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell
“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” – Joseph Barbara
“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” – John Ruskin
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” – Calvin Coolidge
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”_Paulo Coelho
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”_George Lorimer
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“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.”_Tyler Perry
“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”__Gary Ryan Blair
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”__Abraham Lincoln
“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”_Irish Proverb
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”_Martin Luther King, Jr.
”This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”__Alan Wilson Watts
The world belongs to the energetic. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. Mark Cuban
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. Alain de Botton
Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands. Japanese proverb
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”_Mark Twain
“I don’t have a blue-collar job. It’s more of a green collar, because of all the yellow sweat stains mixing in.” – Jarod Kintz
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”_Olin Miller
“Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.”__Henry L. Doherty
“If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.”_Ernest Hemingway
“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.”__Margaret Fuller
“Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.”__Brian Tracy
“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.”_Haile Gebrselassie
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”_Stephen King
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity. Steve Pavlina
“Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.”
__Gertrude B. Elion
__Gertrude B. Elion