Best Work Quotes

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

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

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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.

‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work, the pride that makes business an art.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

God never made his work for man to mend.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

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

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.