Work Quotes

"Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not."

Cal Newport

"Success is actually a short race – a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over."

Gary Keller

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

Paulo Coelho

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

Stephen King

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

Jack London

"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."

W. Somerset Maugham

"Inspiration is for amateurs – the rest of us just show up and get to work."

Chuck Close

"Fortune dwells with the industrious; misfortune dwells with the idle."

Thiruvalluvar

"Generosity without effort fails, like a sword in the hand of a coward."

Thiruvalluvar

"Weigh the strength the task demands, your own strength, your rival's, and that of your allies – then act."

Thiruvalluvar

"Think, and then act; to act first and think afterwards is folly."

Thiruvalluvar

"What you would do tomorrow, do today; what you would do today, do now."

Kabir

"If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means 'First Attempt In Learning'."

"In God we trust, everybody else brings data to the table."

N. R. Narayana Murthy

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark."

"Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities."

Dhirubhai Ambani

"Winners don't do different things. They do things differently."

Shiv Khera

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

Elinor Smith

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."

Peter Drucker

"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

Frederick Douglass

"And all work is empty save when there is love."

Kahlil Gibran

"Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it, in God's name!"

Thomas Carlyle

"Dream is not that which you see while sleeping, it is something that does not let you sleep."