Top 123 Work Quotes

A hand-organized collection of 123 work quotes from notable authors and thinkers. Browse the full set, find the lines that resonate, and turn any quote into a shareable image.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Design has to work. Art does not.
Donald Judd
Donald Judd
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Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.
Demi Lovato
Demi Lovato
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Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
Kent Beck
Kent Beck
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
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All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!
Louise Hay
Louise Hay
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Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
James Mattis
James Mattis
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Communication works for those who work at it.
John Powell
John Powell
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale
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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
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I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been.
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
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People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.
Tom Visak
Tom Visak
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Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
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You get what you work for, not what you wish for.
Howard A. Tullman
Howard A. Tullman
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Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week, to avoid working 40 hours a week.
Unknown
Unknown
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There's only one way to work - like hell.
Bette Davis
Bette Davis
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Watch to see where God is working and join Him in His work.
Henry Blackaby
Henry Blackaby
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock
John Lubbock
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
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Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.
J R D Tata
J R D Tata
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Everyone's work is equally important.
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer
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The treasure you seek is in the work you're avoiding.
Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik
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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
Unknown
Unknown
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Do work that matters. Vale la pena.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
Gloria E. Anzaldua
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You are the only person who can make this work, and you are the only person who can mess this up.
Andrew Tate
Andrew Tate
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You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.
Betty White
Betty White
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson
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Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.
Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliffe
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Professionalism is not about what work you do, it is about how well you do the work.
Arnis Rasmanis
Arnis Rasmanis
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Plan your work - work your plan.
B.C. Forbes
B.C. Forbes
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If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.
Claire Cook
Claire Cook
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There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana
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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Sam Ewing
Sam Ewing
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Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.
Paul Graham
Paul Graham
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To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.
Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys
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Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.
Gene Kranz
Gene Kranz
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
Felix Dennis
Felix Dennis
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You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?
Sally Hogshead
Sally Hogshead
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The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
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I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome
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Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. COLOSSIANS 3 : 23.
Unknown
Unknown
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Work is much more fun than fun.
Noel Coward
Noel Coward
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My job is to awaken possibility in other people.
Benjamin Zander
Benjamin Zander
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What's important is finding out what works for you.
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore
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So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake
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The first fundamental principle of effective classroom feedback is that feedback should be more work for the recipient than the donor.
Dylan Wiliam
Dylan Wiliam
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Deep play precedes deep work.
Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin
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