Work Quotes

Enjoy our collection of famous work quotes to live by. What comes first is work than success. Without work, nothing can be achieved. We hope you find these work quotes will help you or someone you know to live a more positive and inspiring life.

There's no growth without a lot of hard work and a little risk.
Gloria Estefan,

If anticipating your first day of work doesn't stir feelings of excitement in your gut, it isn't the right job for you. Don't find out the hard way.
Richard A. Moran, Never Confuse A Memo With Reality

Perhaps the best nonmaterial reward of all is not only recognizing an employee's current effort, but opening the door to the possibility of greater recognition in the future.
Barry Silverstein, Motivating Employees

Since the corporation is wholly in the service of the consumer, it cannot be in the service of itself; being subject to the power of the public, it cannot have any significant power of its own… This is a myth.
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age Of Uncertainty.

Workers are frustrated by a lack of communication from management. Give them enough information to do their jobs properly and to make them feel respected and included.
~ Barry Silverstein, Motivating Employees

Don't complain about all the stuff you have to put up with every day as a result. It's your life, it's your choice. You chose it because it brings certain benefits.
Henry Marsh, The Breakthrough Factor

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

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

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

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

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

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

We should all be mindful of the accidents that can happen at work no matter where you are, or what type of work you do. Accidents also happen more than you may realize at home where lack of safety practices seems to be forgotten even though you may be more than aware of them, or actually practice them at your normal work. Safety first is still the best prevention.

Safety doesn't happen by accident.
Author Unknown

"Safety First" is "Safety Always."
Charles M. Hayes

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy.
Author Unknown

Better a thousand times careful than once dead.
Proverb

Prepare and prevent, don't repair and repent.
Author Unknown

Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters.
Hartman Jule

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.
Jeff Cooper

It is better to be safe than sorry.
American Proverb

The house of danger is built upon the borders of safety
Arabian Proverb

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety
David Tuvill

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible.
Jeff Taylor

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.
Jodi Rell




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