24 Best Work Quotes For Taking Action To Succeed

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Are you looking for some work quotes? Stay motivated with the help of the below work quotes.

Best Quotes About Work

1. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” ― William James

2. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas A. Edison

3. “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” ― Jerome K. Jerome

4. “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” ― Gustave Flaubert

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5. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work” ― Thomas A. Edison

6. “I don’t like work–no man does–but I like what is in the work–the chance to find yourself. Your own reality–for yourself not for others–what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.” ― Joseph Conrad

7. “Work without love is slavery.” ― Mother Teresa

8. “Work like you don’t need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you’ve never been hurt.” ― Mark Twain

9. “Let us work without reasoning,’ said Martin; ‘it is the only way to make life endurable.” ― Voltaire, Candide

10. “The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured or valued by men who still possess it.” ― Sunday Adelaja

11. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” ― Aristotle

12. “Don’t mistake activity with achievement.” ― John Wooden

13. “If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.” ― Jim Henson

14. “Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” ― Anne Frank

15. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” ― Émile Zola

16. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

17. “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

18. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

19. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

20. “I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There’s no stopping. I didn’t create the fame, the fame created me.” ― Lady Gaga

21. “Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose” ― Leonardo da Vinci

22. “You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.” ― Anonymous

23. “What worked yesterday doesn’t always work today.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

24. “Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.” ― Charles Bukowski

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