Top 200 Quotes About Work (2025 Update)
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101. “Work harder than anybody you’ve ever seen. That’s what I believe.”

— Meek Mill

102. “Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

103. “None of us is as smart as all of us.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

104. “Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

105. “The doorway to success swings outward not inward.”

— Robin S. Sharma

106. “The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you’ll find the rest of the journey much easier.”

— Simon Sinek

107. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.”

— John C. Maxwell

108. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

— Brian Tracy

109. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”

— Meg Whitman

110. “Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”

— Stephen Hawking

111. “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.”

— Isaac Newton

112. “Always asked, ‘What’s the key to success?’ The key is, there is no key. Be humble, hungry, and always be the hardest worker in the room.”

— Dwayne Johnson

113. “Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.”

— Gary W. Keller

114. “If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”

— Tom Hanks

115. “When you were made a leader you weren’t given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”

— Jack Welch

116. “You get out what you put in. If you want more, give more.”

— Jeanette Jenkins

117. “Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.”

— W. Edwards Deming

118. “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

119. “He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”

— Dylan Thomas

120. “For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.”

— Jim Rohn

121. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Henry Ford

122. “Hire for attitude, train for skill.”

— Herb Kelleher

123. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”

— Elbert Hubbard

124. “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.”

— Mary Kay Ash

125. “The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.”

— Adam Grant

126. “My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.”

— Jim Rohn

127. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

— Caterina Fake

128. “I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.”

— Elon Musk

129. “There’s only one way to work – like hell.”

— Bette Davis

130. “I’m working full time on my job and part time on my fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

131. “Quality is the best business plan.”

— John Lasseter

132. “The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

133. “Love and work, work and love... that’s all there is.”

— Sigmund Freud

134. “Working together is success.”

— Henry Ford

135. “Success isn’t something you chase. It’s something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it’ll come when you least expect it. Most people don’t understand that.”

— Michael Jordan

136. “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

— Nikola Tesla

137. “The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.”

— Denis Waitley

138. “Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”

— Jim Rohn

139. “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.”

— Mark Twain

140. “We work to become, not to acquire.”

— Elbert Hubbard

141. “I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”

— Margaret Mead

142. “Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.”

— Bill Gates

143. “If at first you don’t succeed, try hard work.”

— William Feather

144. “Rest in reason. Move in Passion.”

— Khalil Gibran

145. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

146. “To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.”

— Bruce Lee

147. “Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

148. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius. ”

— Michelangelo

149. “Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

— Saint Augustine

150. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”

— Dale Carnegie