Work Quotes

“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Horace

“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

— Booker T. Washington

“I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.”

— Helen Reddy

“I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.”

— Michael Jordan

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”

— Helen Keller

“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.”

— Samuel Butler

“According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.”

— Jeff Miller

“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”

— David Bowie

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”

— Stephen Hawking

“You don't have to twist my arm to work.”

— Henry Rollins

“But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.”

— Ron White

“You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.”

— Jack Kevorkian

“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.”

— Mark Twain