1. Inspiration comes of working every day. - Charles Baudelaire 

2. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. - Margaret Fuller 

3. Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. - William Gibson

 4. It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. - Federico Fellini 

5. If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. - Noel Coward 

6. Work is much more fun than fun. - Noel Coward 

7. When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. - Jean de la Bruyere 

8. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. - Laurence J. Peter 

9. O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. - Abu Bakr 

10. Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. - Johnny Carson 

11. The greatest teacher I know is the job itself. - James Cash Penney 

12. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. - Ann Landers 

13. Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. - Ann Landers 

14. Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. - George Sand 

15. For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it. - Frank Gehry 

16. He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. - Dylan Thomas 

17. Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t. - Thomas S. Monson 

18. Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. - Ramakrishna 

19. Honor lies in honest toil. - Grover Cleveland 

20. The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. - Ginger Rogers 

21. I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped. - Joyce Brothers 

22. Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. - Christina Rossetti 

23. To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. - Pearl S. Buck 

24. Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. - William Feather 

25. You're blessed if you have the strength to work. - Mahalia Jackson 

26. All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. - Pope Paul VI 

27. Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. - Marc Chagall 

28. When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' - Don Marquis 

29. If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue. - Peter Ustinov 

30. For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship. - Chris Hadfield 

31. You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people. - Kenny Rogers 

32. One thing I never want to be accused of is not working. - Don Shula 

33. When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser 

34. The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. - Arnold J. Toynbee 

35. Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. - George Halas 

36. Good things happen to those who hustle. - Chuck Noll 

37. Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. - Michael Korda 

38. If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come. - Lawrence Welk 

39. I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do. - Andrew Lloyd Webber 

40. Management must manage! - Harold S. Geneen 

41. Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. - Harold S. Geneen 

42. It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. - Harold S. Geneen 

43. One man's wage increase is another man's price increase. - Harold Wilson 

44. I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day. - Dave Pelzer 

45. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. - C. Northcote Parkinson 

46. Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. - Orson Scott Card 

47. The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival. - Bhumibol Adulyadej 

48. I think about my work every minute of the day. - Jeff Koons 

49. Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. - Francis Quarles 

50. Honest labor bears a lovely face. - Thomas Dekker 

51. No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. - Anna Pavlova 

52. The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo 

53. And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. - Paul Ryan 

54. It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs. - Ron Livingston 

55. It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself. - Nick Carter 

56. 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. - Sam Ewing 

57. No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. - Max Beerbohm 

58. Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. - James Levine 

59. I always got my work done before playing. - Edwin Moses 

60. I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it. - Edgar Winter 

61. America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. - Evan Esar 

62. Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running. - Gary Sinise 

63. On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home. - Ezekiel Emanuel 

64. When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed. - Russel Honore 

65. Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families. - Melissa Bean 

66. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. - Harry Golden 

67. I believe in stopping work and eating lunch. - L'Wren Scott 

68. Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! - David O. McKay 

69. And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. - Donald Norman 

70. There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. - A. R. Ammons 

71. Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator. - Joseph Murray 

72. Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered. - Charles Duke 

73. I'm working myself to death. - Alan Ladd 

74. Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you. - Leigh Steinberg 

75. A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. - James H. Douglas, Jr. 

76. The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get. - Seal 

77. Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. - Byron Dorgan 

78. It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you. - Walter Gilbert 

79. There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born. - Anna Held 

80. Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. - Al Capp 

81. After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not. - Bill Budge 

82. As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money. - Paul Giamatti 

83. There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. - Richard Nelson Bolles 

84. I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. - Richard Nelson Bolles 

85. As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. - Irvin S. Cobb 

86. The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities. - Frank Murphy 

87. Every man loves what he is good at. - Thomas Shadwell 

88. I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job. - Walter Wager 

89. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison 

90. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan 

91. 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. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. - Steve Jobs 

92. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell 

93. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

94. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell 

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

96. A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. - Leonardo da Vinci 

97. The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. - Confucius 

98. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. - Abraham Lincoln 

99. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. - Lao Tzu 

100. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. - Vince Lombardi