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100 the Most Inspirational Quotes About Work Handpicked

100 Amazing Inspirational Quotes About Work for Work Motivation

Discover a collection of the most inspirational quotes about work that will ignite your motivation and drive. These quotes from renowned figures across history offer valuable insights and perspectives on the importance of passion, perseverance, and finding fulfillment in your professional journey. Let these words of wisdom inspire you to embrace challenges, pursue your dreams, and achieve success in your work endeavors. Whether you need a boost of motivation, a reminder of the value of hard work, or a fresh perspective on finding joy in your career, these inspirational quotes will inspire and empower you to excel in your professional life.

Handpicked list of 100 the most inspirational quotes about work

  1. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
  2. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
  3. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
  4. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  5. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  6. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
  7. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.” – Steve Jobs
  8. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  9. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player
  10. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
  11. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
  12. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
  13. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
  14. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  15. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
  16. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
  17. “Do what you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
  18. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
  19. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
  20. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
  21. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
  22. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
  23. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
  24. “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it” – Buddha
  25. “When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.” – Dr. Seuss
  26. “There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.” – Alain de Botton
  27. “Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.” – Madeleine L’Engle
  28. “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” – Matty Mullins
  29. “Anything is better than stagnation.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
  30. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
  31. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
  32. “Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”― Confucius
  33. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell
  34. “Work hard in silence, let success make the noise.” – Frank Ocean
  35. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
  36. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  37. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work” – Thomas A. Edison
  38. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
  39. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
  40. Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.” – Charles J. Sykes,
  41. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
  42. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
  43. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
  44. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
  45. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.” – Chantal Sutherland
  46. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
  47. “Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.” – Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  48. “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Unknown
  49. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
  50. “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.” ― Linus Torvalds
  51. “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”-Jerome K. Jerome
  52. “I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.” ― Jason Mraz
  53. “Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.” ― David Livingstone
  54. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
  55. “There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”  – Andrew Jackson
  56. “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.” ― Coco Chanel
  57. “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” ― Michelangelo Buonarroti
  58. “No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.” ― Joyce Brothers
  59. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
  60. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
  61. “The greatest weariness comes from work not done.” – Eric Hoffer
  62. You go to school to get a job, and you get a job to take time off to do nothing. Why not do nothing to begin with?” ― Janne Teller
  63. “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” ― Henry David Thoreau
  64. “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” – Arnold H. Glasow
  65. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” – Gary Player
  66. “I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” – Charles Lamb
  67. “All happiness depends on courage and work.”- Honoré de Balzac
  68. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  69. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
  70. “If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”-Terry Pratchett
  71. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  72. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
  73. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
  74. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” William James
  75. “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” – Bertrand Russell
  76. “Work without love is slavery.” – Mother Teresa
  77. “The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.” – Idowu Koyenikan
  78. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
  79. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
  80. “Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.” – Joan Didion
  81. “I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?” – Ronald Reagan
  82. “Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” – Jim Rohn
  83. “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Mark Twain
  84. “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.” – Alasdair Gray
  85. “I love my job when I’m not there.” ― Paul R. Linde
  86. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
  87. My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.” ― Steve Jobs
  88. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
  89. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
  90. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” ― Aristotle
  91. “work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley
  92. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.” – Chantal Sutherland
  93. “Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. ― Marian Wright Edelman
  94. “Never work.” ― Guy Debord
  95. “Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from” – Rolf Potts
  96. “I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.” ― Wally Wang
  97. “He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn’t really much else to do. Make something, and die.” ― Ian McEwan
  98. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by”- Douglas Adams
  99. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
  100. “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.” ― Richard Bach