Work Quotes

1. Work will win when wishy-washy wishing won’t. -Thomas S. Monson

2. The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin

3. Everything cometh to him who waiteth, so long as he who waiteth worketh like hell while he waiteth. - Allen Drury

4. The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. - Marquis de Vauvenargues

5. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. - Harry Golden

6. Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. - David O. McKay

7. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben

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

9. There are no short cuts to any place worth going. - Unknown

10. The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important. - Milo Bloom

11. There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas Edison

12. I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. -John D. Rockefeller

13. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. - Buddha

14. If at first you don't succeed try hard work. - William Feather

15. The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller

16. Work has to include our deepest values and passion and feeling and commitments or it's not work, it's just a job. - Mathew Fox

17. The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off. - Steve Jobs

18. I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. - Helena Rubinstein

19. Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

20. The only place you'll find success before work is in the dictionary. - May B. Smith

21. The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. - Margot Fonteyn

22. 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. - Henry David Thoreau

23. The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. - Ginger Rogers

24. Elbow grease is the best polish. - English proverb

25. The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. - Oprah Winfrey

26. Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be. - Dorothy Parker

27. Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work hard to get better. - Paul Coffey

28. In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable. - Seth Godin

29. I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it. - Ray Bradbury

30. There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon