Best 55 Motivational Quotes for Work Help you Focus and Work Smarter

1. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

2. “I don’t work at being ordinary.” – Paul McCartney

3. “We work to become, not to acquire.” – Elbert Hubbard

4. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas A. Edison

5. “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle

6. “There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.” – William Hague

7. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank

8. “The greatest weariness comes from work not done.” – Eric Hoffer

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

10. “Management is nothing more than motivating other people.” – Lee Iacocca

11. “I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.” – L’Wren Scott

12. “Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.” – Mark Twain

13. “Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” – Oscar Wilde

14. “It will work. I am a marketing genius.” – Paris Hilton

15. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Samuel Goldwyn

16. “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller

17. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle

18. “Work is the price which is paid for reputation.” – Baltasar Gracian

19. “Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” – Bette Davis

20. “Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” – Charles Baudelaire

21. “Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.” – Charles de Gaulle

22. “Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.” – Charles Kingsley

23. “Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.” – Frank Zappa

24. “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” – Horace

25. “I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.” – J. K. Rowling

26. “Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.” – Joel Osteen

27. “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” – John Ruskin

28. “Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.” – Lauryn Hill

29. “My work is a game, a very serious game.” – M. C. Escher

30. “I simply do not distinguish between work and play.” – Mary Oliver

31. “I wasn’t really a work conscious type of person.” – Michael Jordan

32. “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” – Robert Orben

33. “I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.” – Ayrton Senna

34. “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.” – Buddha

35. “All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.” – Donald Pleasence

36. “Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.” – Edmund Burke

37. “Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” – George Halas

38. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” – Harry Golden

39. “To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.” – Harvey Fierstein

40. “I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.” – Henry Rollins

41. “Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” – Jim Rohn

42. “As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. “To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.” – Robert Frost

44. “Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.” – Thomas Carlyle

45. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” – Vince Lombardi

46. “Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.” – Byron Dorgan

47. “Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.” – H. L. Mencken

48. “As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.” – Katharine Hepburn

49. “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.” – Laurence J. Peter

50. “I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.” – Marilyn Monroe

51. “Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.” – Orson Scott Card

52. “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso

53. “Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.” – Pablo Picasso

54. “Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.” – Tia Mowry

55. “One must work and dare if one really wants to live.” – Vincent Van Gogh