Inspirational Work Quotes

Work hard, persevere and help without hesitation to become an Asset instead of Liability. ~ Edwin Calingasan

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out. ~ Randy Pausch

Whether it be training, dieting, working out, or work ethic, for every great excuse "Not" to do something, there are 100 "better" reasons for you to do it. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent. ~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

You must do much work to fulfill your dream. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. ~ Nadia Boulanger

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Your true passions will rise you up before the sun, to pick you up where you left off long after the moon went to bed. When we respond to the beckon of these kinds of intrinsic dreams they will make exciting the most tedious of work, they will lighten the heaviest of burdens, and will enable us to focus with laser precision on whatever array of tasks may be at hand for their progress. ~ Connie Kerbs

On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work. ~ Jim Rohn

Even when you love what you do, work is work.

By definition, the act of growth is defined by a certain level of struggle and a willingness to endure pain in the pursuit of progress. ~ Raymond Rasmusson

Your job doesn't define you - your bravery and kindness and gratitude do. Even without any "big" accomplishments yet to your name, you are enough. Whether you have top billing, or you're still dancing in the back row, you are enough, just as you are. ~ Lauren Graham

Whatever your dreams may be, never dismiss them as impossible. Always hope. Always try. You just never know when things will happen. ~ Joanne Van Leerdam

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround ~ Henri Matisse

He stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job. ~ Hugh MacLeod

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other. ~ David Frost

Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself. ~ Clinton Anderson

The wishbone will never replace the backbone ~ Will Henry

The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were "realistic." They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and then gave them horses to ride. ~ Richard N. Bolles

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. ~ David Bly

The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce. ~ Mark W. Boyer

I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece. ~ Simon McBurney

You'll never get anything done by sitting on your hands or by wringing them. Try getting them dirty for a change and you'll be surprised by how much you can accomplish. ~ Belva Rae Staples

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. ~ James C. Collins

Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement. ~ Ryan Holiday

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ~ Pablo Picasso

All it takes is an ideology seductive enough to convince you to discard common sense. ~ Cal Newport

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work. ~ Paulo Coelho

The camel's hump is an ugly lump,
Which well you might see at the zoo.
But uglier yet is the hump we get,
For having to little to do. ~ Rudyard Kipling

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ~ Joseph Joubert

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation. ~ Aristotle.

Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried. Those who work shit jobs tend to be the object of indignities; they not only work hard but also are held in low esteem for that very reason. But at least they know they're doing something useful. Those who work bullshit jobs are often surrounded by honor and prestige; they are respected as professionals, well paid, and treated as high achievers - as the sort of people who can be justly proud of what they do. Yet secretly they are aware that they have achieved nothing; they feel they have done nothing to earn the consumer toys with which they fill their lives; they feel it's all based on a lie - as, indeed, it is. ~ David Graeber

A lot of times I go to the gym and I see people and they don't know how to work out. There's no routine or anything like that. I saw a guy who I haven't seen in five years and the guy looks the same as he did five years ago. ~ Andre Reed

Heartache purged layers of baggage I didn't know I carried. Gifts hide under the layers of grief. ~ Shauna L. Hoey

How will the family unit be destroyed? ... [T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare. ~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. ~ Alfred The Great

Time is not just the hands of a clock. It isn't just a change of seasons either. It is a treasure trove of precious moments, infinite little joys and blessings, precious smiles, tears and heartbeats. ~ Mona Soorma

Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish ... ~ Barbara Taylor Bradford

Embrace your journey and those who come across your path. Be gracious in your endeavors. Focus on your craft. Those who support your dreams now and feel your sincere humility and gratitude will be there 20, 30, 40 years from now, padding your old bones and time worn, weary soul. ~ Ann Marie Frohoff

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest. ~ Marcel Proust

You cannot control anyone but yourself in this life, and that means you ultimately have the choice in whether you would like life's struggles to define you and keep you down, or would you like them to fuel you to be the very best version of you that you can be. ~ L.K. Elliott

When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms. ~ Kate Griffin

I am the biggest fan of my dreams. If I give up on myself, then my dreams have died...I will not let that happen. ~ Toye Lawson Brown

The woman next to you that looks really bad might be going through the toughest challenge ever with her teenage daughter; think about if it were you in her shoes before gossiping about her. The man at the checkout line using change may have lost his job and is buying diapers for his baby at home because its all the money he has left; think about it before you snicker to your friends because he could've bought beer or cigarettes. The child with holes in his shoes could be homeless but he's still going to school because he feels safe there even though others laugh at him; think about it before you judge the innocent. You never know what challenges you're going to face from day to day! ~ Barbara Morrison

When in doubt, vary, change, solve the problem, seize the opportunity, experiment, try something new (consistent, of course, with the core ideology) - even if you can't predict precisely how things will turn out. Do something. If one thing fails, try another. Fix. Try. Do. Adjust. Move. Act. No matter what, don't sit still. ~ Jim Collins

Out of the apartment houses come women who should be young but have faces like stale beer; men with pulled down hats and quick eyes that look the street over behind the cupped hand that shields the match flame; worn intellectuals with cigarette coughs and no money in the bank; fly cops with granite faces and unwavering eyes; cookies and coke peddlers; people who look like nothing in particular and know it, and once in a while even men that actually go to work. But they come out early, when the wide cracked sidewalks are empty and still have dew on them. (from) The High Window ~ Raymond Chandler

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art. ~ Henry Miller

People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion. ~ John Ridley

I don't cook for myself. I eat every meal out. I'm fed by others. I think it's a kind of social thing. I work collaboratively with others. A meal with a friend is my ultimate thing. ~ Micah Lexier

Fifty-fifty marriages are an impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work.
In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker.
Someone has to delegate responsibility, and God has ordained that this should be the husband. ~ Wayne Mack

I'm a first class passenger on the Spaceship Earth, and I got one ticket. And I gotta make the ride count, you know? And, as far as I figure, you can either take the service road or the scenic route. And, man, if I only have one ride, I want it to be beautiful.
84. Highway. ~ Eric Bogosian

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution. ~ Harold H. Greene

One must be without error out here. Walk in single file. Work quietly. Pack an extra number 2 pencil. Make no mistakes. But you are human and you will make mistakes. You will misjudge. You will yell. You will drink too much. You will hang out with people you shouldn't. Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson - not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality. ~ Steve Maraboli

Something real, cool, and solid, lies before you something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. ~ Charlotte Bronte

She is a sunflower! She brings hope to people. ~ Avijeet Das

Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you. ~ Dennis Lehane

Embrace courageously the challenging beauty of life. ~ Angelica Hopes

When the pain in your heart seems too much to bear just ask The Lord and he will be there. ~ Michelle C. Hillstrom

I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that. ~ Catherine Hicks

I don't look for love. Love looks for me." "Why?" "Because it needs me. Because I'm not afraid of it. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Take the next 24 hours and just relax with the knowing that everything is okay. Let go of the stress and worry for one day and see what happens. ~ Mike Basevic

We like to forget and underestimate the power of love and kindness, more often than not, it can change a life and a society. ~ Debasish Mridha