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Top 160 Positive Motivational Quotes About Work

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Sometimes when you are feeling discouraged at work, I suggest you start reading about positive motivational quotes to encourage and empower yourself. You will start feeling better of yourself.
Here is a select compilation of positive quotes about work I find most inspiring and motivating. Read and be motivated by these quotes.


What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
Benjamin F. Fairless

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Dale Carnegie

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Brian Tracy

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
Brian Tracy

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?
Harland Sanders

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Indira Gandhi

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
Henry L. Doherty

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.
Jack Welch

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
Orison Swett Marden

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
Jim Rohn

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
Harding Lawrence

Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Calvin Coolidge

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
Brian Tracy

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.
William James

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Fernando Flores

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon Hill

One important key to success is self confidence. An important key to self confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
William Patten

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.
Jim Rohn

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

Hard work means prosperity; only a fool idles away his time.
Proverbs

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.
Margaret Thatcher

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

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Vincent Van Gogh

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Elbert Hubbard

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
Robert Frost

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Dale Carnegie

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.
Marcia Wieder

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
Rick Pitino

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
John Lubbock

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Thomas Jefferson

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H.L. Hunt

A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job.
Unknown Author

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
Charles Schwab

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.
George C. Hubbs

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Nolan Bushnell

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Edwin H. Stuart

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Brian Tracy

Work while others are wishing.
Thomas A. Edison

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vincent Lombardi

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Unknown

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen B. Leacock

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

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.
Confucius

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.
Dennis Gunston

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
Joe Gibbs

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
William Ernest Hocking

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

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
Joseph Barbara

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry S. Truman

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.That's the mark of a true professional.
Buddha

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.
William Lyon Phelps

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain

It's easy to figure out who isn't a team player. They'll constantly remind the coach just how good they are.
Brian G. Jett

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin

There is no substitute for hard work.
Dale Carnegie

If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Thomas A. Edison

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
Nido Qubein

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