Best Work Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.”

“Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.”

“Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.”

“I always got my work done before playing.”

“It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you're wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a loss. You learn what is it that we're not doing to get to where we want to go. It really gets your attention and it really motivates the work ethic of your team when you're not doing well.”

“The dream of every footballer and why we train and work is to reach the top, and a World Cup is the top.”

“The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.”

“It is teamwork that makes the dream work.”

“I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.”

“My career is the sum of the decisions I have made. Everyone can work hard, but I work on my own terms. I stand my ground, and once I have committed to anything, I give my 150 per cent. I don't take my work for granted, ever. I know that, forget me, no matter where anyone is, everyone is dispensable. Why would I think I am indispensable then?”

“I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.”

“The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.”

“Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.”

“I'm the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.”

“When I was 5, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. Like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work - packing lunches before we woke up - and paying bills after we went to bed. Helping us with homework at the kitchen table - and shuttling us to church for choir practice.”

“He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.”

“If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.”

“Confidence comes by practice. It doesn't happen overnight. Nothing happens without hard work.”

“New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.”

“The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.”

“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”

“Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.”

“That's really what my work is all about - bringing kids together.”

“We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some - and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists, consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they have never lost, and we call them liars.”

“When you're out shopping, try to calculate the discount of something in the sales, or work out how much a bill in a restaurant will come to. Your brain is just like any other muscle - you have to train it to make it work faster.”

“We are immortal until our work on earth is done.”

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”

“Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.”

“If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.”

“When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.”

“I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.”

“To me, accessorizing is the most fun part of an outfit. While I don't think you can't rely on accessories to make a dress that isn't working work, I do love jewelry and handbags more than anything.”

“I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.”

“In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.”

“It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.”

“I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.”

“You can't control injuries, but you can control how hard you work to come back.”

“Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.”

“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”

“My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.”

“Of course, every day I am growing - if we work every day, we grow every day.”

“I was 18 and had taken A-levels in Woking where I grew up. But I didn't want to go to university so left sixth-form college. My father was in the building industry and he found me a job stripping concrete panels off buildings. It was dangerous work on high scaffolds, sometimes 12 hours a day, Monday to Friday, and often weekends too.”

“Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.”

“I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.”

“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.”

“I'm a huge fan of the game. It's beyond a fringe benefit of obviously getting to work at the league office. I watch a ton of games in person, on television, on all forms of new media I follow the league. And so it's just beyond my wildest imaginations to me to now be the commissioner of the NBA.”

“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

“All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.”

“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.”

“So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.”

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

“Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.”

“Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.”

“I've got to work harder and smarter to get to the place where I truly belong.”

“I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.”

“But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.”

“Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.”

“I'm super athletic and I love to work out, and obviously I need to workout for my industry as well, but I love learning something and developing that skill and feeling strong. Girls who can kick butt are hot.”

“Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.”

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

“Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.”

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”

“If you're not willing to put in the hard work, to endure and fail, there's no point. You win only if you're willing to do whatever it takes.”

“In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.”

“I work out five days a week; I can't imagine not doing it.”

“It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.”

“I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.”

“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”

“Performing 60,000 people, that's easy. The energy's already there. They're already doing most of the work. All you gotta do is not forget the words - and feed them energy, too.”

“You go through tough times. What I personally believe in is you should forget the stats. But also, it pushes you to see the areas where you have to work on to be a consistent team.”

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”

“If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.”

“I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.”

“I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”

“I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.”

“The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.”

“I've learned it's really important to work hard and keep your family and friends close. You've got to let them know how much you appreciate them for sticking by you.”

“Kevin Hitchcock, the goalkeeping coach at QPR, is an old mate, and I came to work for him on the understanding that I was first choice. If he'd said to me, 'We're also going to sign someone who's won Serie A five times and the Champions League and is one of the biggest names in South American football,' I would have thought twice before signing.”

“Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children.”

“Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.”

“To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.”

“I don't work at being ordinary.”

“All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape.”

“When the coaches tell you to work hard, be there at 9 o'clock, make sure to be early. If you're not early, you're late.”

“I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.”

“You try something, it doesn't work, and maybe people even criticize you. In a fixed mindset, you say, 'I tried this, it's over.' In a growth mindset, you look for what you've learned.”

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.”

“If you work hard, have the right mindset, right intentions, things will fall into place.”

“I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.”

“Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.”

“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”

“You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.”

“You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.”

“I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.”

“The title 'black swimmer' makes it seem like I am not supposed to be able to win a gold medal, I am not supposed to be able to break the Olympic record, and that is not true, as I work as hard as anybody else, and I love the sport, and I want to win, just like everybody else.”