Work Quotes

"Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation."

Satya Nadella

"No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people."

J. R. D. Tata

"In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence."

Jamsetji Tata

"There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose."

Vikram Sarabhai

"Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets."

C. V. Raman

"Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success."

"They alone live who live for others."

"Work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do a slave's work."

"Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit."

"The greatness of helping others rests on the greatness of untiring effort."

Thiruvalluvar

"One who seeks not pleasure but labour will wipe away the tears of his kin and be their pillar."

Thiruvalluvar

"Lack of good fortune is no disgrace; the disgrace is to lack knowledge and effort."

Thiruvalluvar

"By constant practice even the dull become skilled; the rope that rubs again and again leaves its mark on the stone."

Vrind

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."

"Hard work, will power and dedication – that is the way to success."

Milkha Singh

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

"The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win."

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision."

Muhammad Ali

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Lou Holtz

"Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."

"We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in."

Arianna Huffington

"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."

Stephen Hawking

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."

Isaac Newton

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."