Work Quotes

Please enjoy this collection of motivational quotes about work, jobs, and working…

Inspirational Work Quotes – Inspiring Quotes about Work

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
-Brian Tracy

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
-Henry Ward Beecher

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it.
- Mark Twain

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- the Buddha

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill

TEAMWORK…means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous

INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
- Anonymous

I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles Schultz’ Peanuts comic

Always listen to the experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
- Nolan Bushnell

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen

Getting fired is nature’s way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley

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

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
- Oscar Wilde

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

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain