Quotes for Work

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Jerry West

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Robin S. Sharma

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Pope Paul VI

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

Claude McDonald

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Noel Coward

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

Steve Jobs

By the work one knows the workman.

Jean de La Fontaine

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Rumi

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Margaret Thatcher

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Ann Richards