Work Quotes

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

By the work one knows the workmen.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.