Work Quotes

“The difference between what we are doing and what we’re capable of doing would solve most of the world’s problems.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” ~ Seth Godin

“Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.” ~ Ken Robinson, The Element

“How do I define success? Let me tell you, money’s pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“That’s what building a body of work is all about. It’s about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It’s about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it’s never finished. It’s cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you’re not done. You haven’t even started.” ~ Barack Obama

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.” ~ Malcolm Gladwell

A Western journalist asked, “Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don’t you think you should take a vacation?” Gandhi smiled and replied, “I am always on vacation.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.” ~ Seth Godin, Linchpin

“Success – the real success – does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“The more strongly you feel about what you do the more likely you are to push yourself to be good at it. Find a way to make a success of it. If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then your story into something bigger – something that matters.” ~ Blake Mycoskie (Founder of TOMS)

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” ~ Steve Jobs

“We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” ~ Henry J. Kaiser

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. 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.” ~ Helen Keller

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” ~ Henry Ford

“It’s not the number of years you put in, it’s the number of hours.” ~ Paul McClellan

“Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.” ~ Carol Dweck

“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” ~ Zig Ziglar