Quotations similar to WORK - CAREER, BUSINESS
Also see WORK AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
A bad worker quarrels with his tools. - Proverb
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. - Colin Powell
A great demand today is that work should be interesting. This is a recent development in human history, and workers in field or factory over the centuries would have been greatly puzzled by it. - George Watson
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skill of the others. - Norman Hidle
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. - Louis Nizer
All work and no play is not good for the soul. - Felix Sabates
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. - Proverb
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. - Al Capp
Anything in life worth having is worth working for. - Andrew Carnegie
Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. - Dr Leila Denmark
Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. - Henry Ward Beecher
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. - John Burroughs
By working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life. - Eugene Delacroix
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew. - Dale Carnegie
Do your work, but do your thing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction. - Kathy Ireland
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. - David Dunham
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt
For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult. - Charlotte Whitton
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest. - Josiah Gilbert Holland
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the rain going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? - Jean Paul Getty
Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work. - Joseph Barbara
Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. - Sam Ewing
Hard work will never kill you, 'tis said all over town; sweat is the only liquid in which you cannot drown. - Unknown
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. - Robert Half
He that would have fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. - Dylan Thomas
I learned the value of hard work by working hard. - Margaret Mead
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller
I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. - Michael Jordan
If people know how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. - Michelangelo
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. - William Feather
If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater. - Ellen Langer
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. - Ogden Nash
If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person - they will find an easier way to do it. - Murphy's Law
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. - Mignon McLaughlin
If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life. - Confucius
If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it. - Sir Philip Sidney
It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit. - Robert Yates
It is not so much what the job gives you, it is what you give the job. - Denis Waitley
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. - John Ruskin
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank
Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust. - Vijey Christopher
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. - Marian Wright Edelman
No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams. - Unknown
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. - Max Beerbohm
Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work. - David Sarnoff
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. - Ann Landers
Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
One man working with you is worth a dozen men working for you. - Herman M Koelliker
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle
Promise little and do much. - Hebrew Proverb
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. - Audrey Hepburn
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. - Vista M Kelly
Some people develop a wish bone where their back bone should be. - Unknown
Some workers do just enough on the job to avoid being terminated, and they are paid just enough to keep them from leaving. - Jim Hartness
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. - American Proverb
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. - Colin Powell
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King
Team means Together Everyone Achieves More! - Unknown
Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. - Andrew Carnegie
Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we. - Unknown
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. - Elbert Hubbard
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. - Oscar Wilde
The harder I work the more I live. - George Bernard Shaw
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. - Albert Einstein
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. - Jim Rohn
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach
The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't. - Zig Ziglar
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. - Margaret Carty
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vince Lombardi
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. - Albert Schweitzer
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost
The reward is equal to the contribution. - Unknown
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 secret of success in life, and consequently of making money, is to enjoy your work. If you do, nothing is hard work – no matter how many hours you put in. - Sir Billy Butlin
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. - Unknown
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work & play. - Arnold Toynbee
The wishbone will never replace the backbone. - Will Henry
There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and work. - Jeune McIntyre
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those you take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficult lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life. - Peter Drucker
We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living. - Charles Dean
We work to become, not to acquire. - Elbert Hubbard
What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin
When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. - Betty Bender
When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery. - Maxim Gorky
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do. - Zig Ziglar
When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery. - Maxim Gorky
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. - Gordon B Hinckley
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. - Colleen C Barrett
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. - Tim McMahon
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. - Jim Rohn
