Top 1000 Work Quotes & Sayings

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

With hard work and dedication, anything is possible.

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

Many hands make light work.

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

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

All wealth is the product of labor.

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I'm not doing better.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.

My story is going to be completely different than someone else's story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do.

There is no substitute for hard work.

In football, everything is possible, from the moment you work and you believe in your qualities.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Our work is never over.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizontally in our company, not vertically. Products are horizontal. It takes hardware plus software plus services to make a killer product.

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

What you are will show in what you do.

The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.

I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.

A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.

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

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.