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.

If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.
Pep Guardiola
Pep Guardiola
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Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you're working out, you're going to feel good.
Jason Statham
Jason Statham
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It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.
Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit
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If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.
Jan Carlzon
Jan Carlzon
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To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.
Douglas Conant
Douglas Conant
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Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
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Well, I like to have fun at work.
John Malkovich
John Malkovich
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I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.
Lotte Moon
Lotte Moon
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They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
Brian Clough
Brian Clough
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Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.
Tracy McMillan
Tracy McMillan
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My work is a game, a very serious game.
M.C. Escher
M.C. Escher
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One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!
T.L. Osborn
T.L. Osborn
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Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.
Paris Betzold
Paris Betzold
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Students work to get good grades even when they have no interest in their studies.
Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for -- in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
Unknown
Unknown
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Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it.
David Halberstam
David Halberstam
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Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.
Susan Wojcicki
Susan Wojcicki
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If something isn't working, don't try harder or do more. Do something DIFFERENT.
Ramit Sethi
Ramit Sethi
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Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!
Unknown
Unknown
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Left unchecked, technical debt will ensure that the only work that gets done is unplanned work!
Gene Kim
Gene Kim
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Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.
Michael O'Leary
Michael O'Leary
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I will keep working hard!
Yani Tseng
Yani Tseng
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Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith
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A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
Mariam Defensor Santiago
Mariam Defensor Santiago
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Don't expect others to do your work for you.
William Safire
William Safire
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I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.
Lara Pulver
Lara Pulver
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
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Make it work.
Tim Gunn
Tim Gunn
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If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; If you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.
Muhammad Raafi
Muhammad Raafi
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If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job.
Steve Nash
Steve Nash
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It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J Kaiser
Henry J Kaiser
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My hobby is my job. It's a jobby!
Graham Coxon
Graham Coxon
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Had to give you a career to destroy it.
Eminem
Eminem
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I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.
Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas
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We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
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Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.
Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May
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Everyone we work with knows a lot more and can do a lot more than we think. It's our job as coaches to find out what it is that they know, care about, can do, and are committed to, and then to use that information to help them move their practice.
Douglas Fisher
Douglas Fisher
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If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.
Joseph O'Connor
Joseph O'Connor
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Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman
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It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren
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This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley
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Work at your craft, write daily, and follow your dreams because dreams do come true.
Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.
Robert Genn
Robert Genn
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Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.
Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
David Heinemeier Hansson
David Heinemeier Hansson
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Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
Unknown
Unknown
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