100 Work quotes and sayings to motivate you on your goals

100 Work quotes and sayings to motivate you on your goals. Here are the best quotes about work to inspire you to work harder, motivational quotes for work success that will give you inspiration to stay focused and to have a positive mindset on your objectives to attain the good results that you deserve, learn about the things to consider for achieving your goals in life, job quotes that will inspire you to believe in yourself and appreciate the help of those around you, and short inspirational quotes about work-life that you can share with your friends, family, and loved ones.

1. Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert

2. Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there. - Haile Gebrselassie

3. Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. - Roy T. Bennett

4. You were hired because you met expectations, you will be promoted if you can exceed them. - Saji Ijiyemi

5. Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Francis of Assisi

6. No one ever drowned in sweat. - USMC Officer

7. Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin

8. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. - James Allen

9. The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. - Louisa May Alcott

10. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur

11. If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. - Terry Pratchett

12. 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

13. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castaneda

14. 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

15. The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. - George Carlin

16. Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him. - Eliel Pierre

17. I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

18. A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. - Emily Bronte

19. When I meet successful 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

20. A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. - Colin Powell

21. If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault. - Orson Scott Card

22. Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. - Donald Trump

23. Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. - Anne Frank

24. 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 bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. - Louisa May Alcott

25. Someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn’t make a difference in the world. I think that’s just a horrible thing. - John Skoll

26. If you don’t burn out at the end of each day, you’re a bum. - George Lois

27. Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve. - Mary K. Ash

28. Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. - Pope John XXIII

29. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Émile Zola

30. If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are. - George C. Hubbs

31. Too many irons, not enough fire. - S. Kelley Harrell

32. 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

33. In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. - Tina Fey

34. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. - Dale Carnegie

35. All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. - Calvin Coolidge

36. Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. - H.L. Hunt

37. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. - Gordon B. Hinckley

38. Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. - Denis Waitley

39. The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. - M. Scott Peck

40. Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top. - Paul Coffey

41. 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

42. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. - Victor Hugo

43. 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

44. Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

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

46. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. - Amelia Earhart

47. No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work. - Jonathan Sacks

48. Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. - Booker T. Washington

49. 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

50. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell

51. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. - Amelia Earhart

52. 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

53. 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

54. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. - Phil Jackson

55. 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

56. 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

57. There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. - Alain de Botton

58. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. - Benjamin Franklin

59. 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

60. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. - Hamilton Holt

61. Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory. - Jim Butcher

62. Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect. - Luther Campbell

63. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. - Kurt Vonnegut

64. 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

65. No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King Jr.

66. I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me. - Lady Gaga

67. It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. - Henry Ford

68. Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. - Voltaire

69. Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth. - Criss Jami

70. It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. - Muhammad Ali

71. If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid. - Alan Watts

72. You should not confuse your career with your life. - Dave Barry

73. We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. - Alan Turing

74. Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. - Joan Didion

75. People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. - Frederick Douglass

76. Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade. - Rudyard Kipling

77. I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job. - Karl Lagerfeld

78. God sells us all things at the price of labor. - Leonardo Da Vinci

79. We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third. - Leslie Knope

80.  When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. - Paulo Coelho

81. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

82. How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really. - Philip Larkin

83. Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead. - Austin Kleon

84. In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. - Robert Fanney

85. 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 and sweat and tears. - Simon Sinek

86. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver

87. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. - Arthur Miller

88. If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. - Plato

89. Always be smarter than the people who hire you. - Lena Horne

90. Embrace the pain to inherit the gain. - Habeeb Akande

91. Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. - Elisabeth Elliot

92. It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. - Isaac Asimov

93. Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity. - Deepak Chopra

94. But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. - Hubert Selby Jr.

95. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves. - Wendell Berry

96. 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

97. I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality. - John Kennedy Toole

98. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight. - Paulo Coelho

99. Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. - Charles Bukowski

100. That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it. - Charles Bukowski