These are 27 of the top work quotes I have found in my research.
As a leader, you constantly need to speak and remind your team about principles of success and quotes add credibility to your speeches. By using sayings that great leaders and wise men of old have used before, you add the extra impact to the point you’re trying to make.
Work Quotes is a compilation of quotes about the need to work hard and persevere to achieve your success. These quotes I have chosen are specifically meant for that purpose. Use these quotes to inspire and motivate!
27 Top Work Quotes
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius (More Confucius on leadership)
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Edgar Winter
We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard
Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.
Marc Chagall
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
David Bly
Behind every technological breakthrough there lies a dream. Behind every new product there lies a dream. Dreams create realities– through hard work.
Rolf Jensen
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
Steve Pavlina
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison
Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.
Unknown
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
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
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell
Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya
Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
John Carmack
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
Jim Valvano