Top 200 Quotes About Work (2025 Update)
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151. “People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”

— Frederick Douglass

152. “Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.”

— John C. Maxwell

153. “Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”

— George Orwell

154. “What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”

— Walt Disney

155. “What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.”

— Tim Ferriss

156. “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

157. “We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

— Sam Walton

158. “Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.”

— Kevin Systrom

159. “A company’s employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product.”

— Richard Branson

160. “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

— Sigmund Freud

161. “My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

162. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

— Newt Gingrich

163. “Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”

— Chanakya

164. “Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn’t you have fun at work?”

— Richard Branson

165. “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

— T. S. Eliot

166. “My motto is: ‘Keep it simple, stupid. Work smart, not hard.’”

— Joe Teti

167. “Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”

— Alfred Adler

168. “Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.”

— Victor Kiam

169. “A different language is a different vision of life.”

— Federico Fellini

170. “There’s nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.”

— Ayn Rand

171. “Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.”

— Peter F. Drucker

172. “Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.”

— Joyce Meyer

173. “Your family is depending on you. There’s no better reason to bring your A-game all the time.”

— Grant Cardone

174. “Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.”

— Joseph Campbell

175. “Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.”

— Napoleon Hill

176. “Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

177. “There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

— Sam Walton

178. “No excuses. Just do the work.”

— Shalane Flanagan

179. “My work is a game, a very serious game.”

— M.C. Escher

180. “Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”

— Colin Powell

181. “Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

182. “It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

183. “You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?”

— Sally Hogshead

184. “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”

— Bertrand Russell

185. “Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

— Albert Camus

186. “Don’t suffer fools or you’ll become one.”

— Tim Ferriss

187. “Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”

— Henry Ford

188. “Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it’s a sprint.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

189. “Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.”

— Tim Ferriss

190. “No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”

— Groucho Marx

191. “Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.”

— Tim Ferriss

192. “Don’t go to work to work, go to work to prosper.”

— Grant Cardone

193. “Housekeeping ain’t no joke.”

— Louisa May Alcott

194. “It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.”

— Confucius

195. “The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.”

— Vince Lombardi

196. “Work until your brain forgets and your body remembers.”

— Anonymous

197. “I’d rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.”

— J. Paul Getty

198. “To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

199. “I’ve learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we’ll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.”

— Dwayne Johnson

200. “Nothing negatively impacts organisation performance quicker than an employee who resists change and who believes that the way they work today is the way they will work tomorrow.”

— Peter F Gallagher