Best 76 Work Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing work quotes and sayings.
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Short Work Sayings
“He only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs
“What worked yesterday doesn’t always work today.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” —Richard Bach
“Work without love is slavery.” —Mother Teresa
“The man is nothing; the work is everything.” —Gustav Floberg
“My work is my lifetime biography.” —Faisal Abu’Allah
“Being busy does not always mean real work.” —Thomas Edison
“My life will be the best illustration of all my work.” —Hans Christian Andersen
“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” —Margaret Mead
“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” —Gordon B. Hinckley
“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.” —John Wooden
“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” —Conan O’Brien
“I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.” —Louise Bourgeois
“Work on the right things at the right time for the right reasons.” —Peter Bray
“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.” —John Irving
“As long as you’re working, you stay young.” —George Burns
“If work if so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it.” —George Carlin
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” —Mary Oliver
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” —Henry J. Kaiser
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.” —Lena Horne
“Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.” —Marc Chagall
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.” —Buddha
“We work to become, not to acquire.” —Elbert Hubbard
“Nothing will work unless you do.” —John Wooden
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” —Jonas Salk
“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” —John C. Maxwell
“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” —Jim Rohn
“He greatest weariness comes from work not done.” —Eric Hoffer
“If you have sixty seconds worth of distance,run.” —Chris Stevenson
“I like to work hard and see the results of my hard work.” —Erin Heatherton
“Work is more fun than fun.” —Noel Coward
“The work of a man is the explanation of the man.” —Paul Gauguin
“Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.” —Charles Hawthorne
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” —Plato
“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.” —Edward Gibbon
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” —Vince Lombardi
“Work like you don’t need the money.” —Joseph Joubert
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” —Jerome K. Jerome
“Are you living to work or working to live?” —Dr. Melvyn Kinder
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” —Vince Lombardi
Work Sayings
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” —Colin Powell
“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas A. Edison
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —Confucius
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” —David Bly
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” —Douglas Adams
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” —Colin Powell
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.” —Malcolm Gladwell
“All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.” —Eric Thomas
“Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.” —Campbell Scott
“Proficiency is often nothing more than good work practices repeated.” —David Allio
“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.” —George Allen, Sr.
“The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.” —Unknown
“Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.” —Jahangir Khan
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” —Tommy Lasorda
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” —Rumi
“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.” —Byron Dorgan
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word, excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” —Pearl S. Buck
“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” —Elbert Hubbard
“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” —Stephen Hawking
“You must work – we must all work – to make the world worthy of its children.” —Pablo Casals
“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.” —Thomas Moore
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” —Buddha
“Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.” —Eugene Delacroix
“Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.” —Jim Hodges
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” —Henry Ford
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” —Benjamin Franklin
“My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don’t blame me if the sun doesn’t rise.” —Janet Skeslien Charle
“I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.” —Vincent van Gogh
“Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.” —Sister Mary Lauretta
“I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain.” —Rita Mae Brown
“If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I’m so not stylish by nature, but I’ve learned to work with what I have.” —Julie Bowen
“Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.” —Robert Kiyosaki
“The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.” —Gabriel Heatter
“My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don’t blame me if the sun doesn’t rise.” —Janet Skeslien Charle
Top Ten Work Sayings
Here you will find top ten work sayings selected by our team.
- “Work without love is slavery.” —Mother Teresa
- “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas A. Edison
- “He only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs
- “The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.” —Unknown
- “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —Confucius
- “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” —Colin Powell
- “Always be smarter than the people who hire you.” —Lena Horne
- “Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” —Benjamin Franklin
- “Are you living to work or working to live?” —Dr. Melvyn Kinder
