Work Quotes

"Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power."

N. R. Narayana Murthy

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry."

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital."

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

"Lost time is never found again."

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?"

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."

Mark Twain

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

Jerome K. Jerome

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

Robert Frost

"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all."

Michelangelo

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

Pablo Picasso

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing."

Pelé

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

Muhammad Ali

"Chase your dreams, but make sure you don't find shortcuts."

Sachin Tendulkar

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."

Sam Ewing

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."

Ray Bradbury

"Without labor nothing prospers."

Sophocles

"Work is no disgrace; it is idleness which is a disgrace."

Hesiod

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

John Ruskin

"Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash."

Studs Terkel