75+ Motivational Quotes for Work

Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

It's a beautiful thing when a career and a passion come together.

You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.
- Maya Angelou

The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
- Alex Spanos

My father thought me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Don't blame others as an excuse for your not working hard enough.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
- Maxine Hong Kingston

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
- Durant

Plans are only good intensions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Drucker

The best people want to work the big challenges.
- Larry Page

Great works are performed, not by strenght, but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
- Sister Mary Lauretta

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
- Henry Ford

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
- Christina Rossetti

Good things come to those who wait. But better things come to those who work for it.

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
- Danilo Dolci

The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
- Alex Spanos

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity
- George Carlin

I'd rather hustle 24/7 than slave 9 to 5.

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.
- Anthony Marra

So many things could happen with a hard work.
- Harry Vested Jr.

You don't get what you wish for. You get what you work for.

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

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
- Orison Swett Marden

Work and you'll get what you need; work harder and you'll get what you want.
- Prabakaran Thirumalai

You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.

There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession.
- Conor McGregor

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.
- Jim Henson

All good work requires self-reveletion.
- Sidney Lumet

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.
- Hans Christian Andersen

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.
- Dr. Seuss

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things, you're excited to get up in the morning.
- Larry Page

No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder.
- Elon Musk

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
- Robert Half

To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all, cherish a magnificent obsession.
- Walt Disney

Be steady and well-oriented in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
- Gustave Flaubert

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

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola

A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint.
- Sarah Price

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Vincent van Gogh

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.
- Steve Pavlina

A year from now...we'll see who was really working.

A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
- Colin Powell

Work so hard that one day your signature will be called an autograph.

I don't care how long it takes me, but I'm going somewhere beautiful.

You don't always get what you wish for. But you always get what you work for.

There is no substitute for hard work. Always be humble and hungry.
- Dwayne Johnson

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.
- Henry Ford

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. –
- Indira Gandhi

A company doesn’t exist to serve its own people; a company exists to serve the needs of the people who use its products or services.
- Richard Sheridan

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.
- G.K. Nielson

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. –
- Harry S. Truman

If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. - Mark Cuban

Think training is hard? Try losing.
- Nike

The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t’ is you. And you don’t have to listen.
- Nike

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
- Paulo Coelho

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. –
- Napoleon Hill

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
- Abraham Lincoln

No struggle, no progress, no success.
- Maxime Lagacé

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. —

Look in the mirror – that’s your competition.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
- Michael Jordan

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you’ve got and it will give you all it’s got, which will be plenty.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. –
- James Allen

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

Always be the hardest worker in the room.

Everyone is working to be seen, I am working to disappear.

The only way to live like a king is to work like a slave.

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx

Be happy  –  it drives people crazy.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.
- Lori Greiner

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
- Matt Groening

It’s true that hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
- Ronald Reagan

You are only given a little spark of madness. You must not lose it.
- Robin Williams

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

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else does it.
- Mark Twain

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
- Kin Hubbard

Monday morning: hate it or love it. It's just another day to rock on till the break of dawn.