1,008 Quotes Regarding Work


If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
Michael Jackson

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
Mitt Romney

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
Mitt Romney

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Voltaire

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
E. W. Howe

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Plato

Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael Jackson

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney