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.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine.
Byron Katie
Byron Katie
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Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
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I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.
By Yoshikawa
By Yoshikawa
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
Madeline M. Kunin
Madeline M. Kunin
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alastair Cooke
Alastair Cooke
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I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.
Joss Elba
Joss Elba
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If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.
Rita Smith
Rita Smith
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Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.
George Peabody
George Peabody
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Let's get back to work and make another run at it!
Buster Posey
Buster Posey
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Never send a human to do a machine's job.
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Weaving
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I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.
Jerry Greenfield
Jerry Greenfield
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H.J. Hunt
H.J. Hunt
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No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
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I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.
Taylor Morrisen
Taylor Morrisen
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova
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When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer
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When you go out of your comfort zone and it works, there's nothing more satisfying.
Kristen Wiig
Kristen Wiig
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You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
Robert Solow
Robert Solow
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I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
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Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
Theresa May
Theresa May
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You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt
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I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I can really work and dedicate myself to the institution for achieving the goal which I believe is a noble one.
Unknown
Unknown
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Let the work speak for itself.
Anthony Caro
Anthony Caro
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As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.
Gary Howard
Gary Howard
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If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.
Michele Weiner-Davis
Michele Weiner-Davis
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The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.
Brian Sutton-Smith
Brian Sutton-Smith
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