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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Noel Coward

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

Rumi

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

Steven Wright

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

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Pablo Picasso

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

James Baldwin

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

Claude McDonald

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

Michael Phelps

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Jonas Salk

By the work one knows the workman.

Jean de La Fontaine

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

James Baldwin