Work

Vince Lombardi
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vince Lombardi
Stephen Hawking
“Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” — Stephen Hawking
Samuel Butler
“Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” — Samuel Butler
Amelia Earhart
“The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” — Amelia Earhart
Elbert Hubbard
“If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.” — Elbert Hubbard
Jim Rohn
“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” — Jim Rohn
Pablo Picasso
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” — Pablo Picasso
George Bernard Shaw
“The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.” — George Bernard Shaw
Elon Musk
“It's very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable.” — Elon Musk
Maxime Lagace
“The truly rich men are the ones who have health, loved ones and a work they love.” — Maxime Lagace
Vidal Sassoon
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon
Jon Kabat-zinn
“Like it or not, this moment is all we really have to work with.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Vince Lombardi
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” — Vince Lombardi
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Work is always an antidote to depression.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
Michael Jordan
“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.” — Michael Jordan
Andrew Carnegie
“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.” — Andrew Carnegie
Vincent Van Gogh
“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.” — Vincent van Gogh
James Allen
“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.” — James Allen
John Eliot
“Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.” — John Eliot
Colin Powell
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell
Criss Jami
“The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works.” — Criss Jami
Gustave Flaubert
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” — Gustave Flaubert
John Carmack
“If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.” — John Carmack
Confucius
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ” — Confucius
Richard Bach
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” — Richard Bach
Betty White
“Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work.” — Betty White
Elbert Hubbard
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” — Elbert Hubbard
Ming-dao Deng
“Receive without complaint, Work with fate.” — Ming-Dao Deng
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Robert Kiyosaki
“Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.” — Robert Kiyosaki
John Carmack
“Focused, hard work is the real key to success.” — John Carmack
Henry Ford
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” — Henry Ford
Buddha
“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” — Buddha
Simon Sinek
“Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.” — Simon Sinek
Colin Powell
“A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell
Samuel Butler
“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.” — Samuel Butler
Theodore Roosevelt
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Brian Tracy
“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.” — Brian Tracy
Kabir
“As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero.” — Kabir
Steve Jobs
“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
Alexander Graham Bell
“Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.” — Alexander Graham Bell
Og Mandino
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile.” — Og Mandino
Kamal Ravikant
“We don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.” — Kamal Ravikant
Margaret Mead
“I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ” — Margaret Mead
Andrew Carnegie
“TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.” — Andrew Carnegie
Simon Sinek
“The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.” — Simon Sinek
Lao Tzu
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu
Charlie Chaplin
“The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live. ” — Charlie Chaplin
George Bernard Shaw
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” — George Bernard Shaw
James Matthew Barrie
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ” — James Matthew Barrie

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