180 Positive Quotes for Work That Will Make Your Working Day Much Easier and Productive

Is this your first day at entry level or have you been working for years? Whatever your answer may be, the truth is your whole attitude will impact your entire career.  Being positive in the workplace will surely improve the way people see you as a person and so may even willingly be inclined to help you succeed or cheer you on.  In spite of the long hours and the stress of meeting deadlines, you will never let them see you sweat if you love what you do.  It is optimism that will boost your productivity and improve your focus as many famous celebrities the world over have agreed on. 

No better way to keep your energy levels increased and become better equipped to perform your duties.  You can get to the top as so many remarkable individuals have, and here you will come across words of wisdom they have shared that will inspire you, friends and colleagues.  Read on and find an amazing selection of quotes that renowned scientists, TV show presenters, presidents and CEO’s have stated to motivate everyone with a pay check in great collaboration.  Give it all you’ve got. Anything can be accomplished!

Table of Contents

1. Best Positive Quotes for Work
2. Positive Motivational Quotes for Work
3.  Funny Positive Quotes for Work
4. Short Positive Quotes for Work
5. Positive Attitude – Encouragement Quotes for Work
6. Inspirational Positive Quotes for Work

Best Positive Quotes for Work

• If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. Marc Anthony
• Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. Marc Chagall
• Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. Constantin Brancusi
• I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson
• There’s no right way or wrong way to work. There’s only your way. Suzanne Brockmann
• Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Stephen Hawking
• I believe that good things come to those who work. Wilt Chamberlain

• When you are inspired in your work, everything seems to fall into place. Wayne Dyer
• You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. Jihm Rohn
• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard
• 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
• With hard work and dedication, anything is possible. Timothy Weah
• To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. Bette Davis
• Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success. Henry Ford
• Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. Napoleon Hill
• Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. Samuel Goldwyn
• In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and – SNAP – the job’s a game! Mary Poppins
• I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it. Estee Lauder
• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. Theodore Roosevelt
• Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. Meister Eckhart
• For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work. Jessica Savitch

• Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come. Dave East
• Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau
• No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. Anna Pavlova
• Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. Byron Dorgan
• Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
• I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it. Edgar Winter
• If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax. Abraham Lincoln
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison
• Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Linus Torvalds
• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. Dale Carnegie
• People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working. Elon Musk
• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Emile Zola
• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl S. Buck
• There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford
• There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting. Hope Hicks
• There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. Alan Cohen

Positive Motivational Quotes for Work

• A positive mind finds a way it can be done; A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done. Napoleon Hill
• Be different, stand out, and work your butt off. Reba McEntire
• Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there. Wayne D. Dyer
• Everything is hard before it is easy. Goethe
• The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
• Work like there is someone working twenty four hours a day to take it away from you. Mark Cuban
• If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. Noel Coward
• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. L. Hunt
• Motivation comes from working on things we care about. Sheryl Sandberg
• Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. Gary Ryan Blair
• The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vince Lombardi
• It’s Monday… time to motivate and make dreams and goals happen. Let’s go! Heather Stillufsen
• It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. Henry Ford
• Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill

• Better. Best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. St. Jerome
• I feel like a tiger right now. There’s nothing impossible if you get up and work for it. Michael Flatley
• If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. Sheryl Sandberg
• If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. Steve Jobs
• Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. Al Capp
• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. Max Beerbohm
• Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned. You have to have that mindset that you have to work every single day. Learn every single day. Saquon Barkley

Funny Positive Quotes for Work

• Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde
• I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. Jerome K. Jerome
• I’m working myself to death. Alan Ladd
• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’ Don Marquis
• Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short. Adam Hochschild
• Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. Mark Twain
• Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed. George Burns
• By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost
• Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
• There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job. Terence Fletcher
• Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. Coco Chanel
• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. Henry Ford
• Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership. Julio-Alexi Genao
• The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost

Short Positive Quotes for Work

• Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise. Frank Ocean
• We work to become, not to acquire. Elbert Hubbard
• Done is better than perfect. Sheryl Sandberg
• I don’t live to work; I work to live. Noel Gallagher
• Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda

• Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work. Daya
• Take your work seriously, but never yourself. Margot Fonteyn
• Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou
• Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. Sam Levenson
• It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. Federico Fellini
• Labor gives birth to ideas. Jim Rohn
• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle
• Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is. Sigmund Freud
• Inspiration comes of working every day. Charles Baudelaire
• You are not your resume, you are your work. Seth Godin
• If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Milton Berle
• Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy. Stephen Covey
• Focus on being productive instead of busy. Tim Ferriss
• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi
• A goal is a dream with a deadline. Napoleon Hill
• I work to stay alive. Bette Davis
• What you are will show in what you do. Thomas A. Edison
• The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk
• A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things. Ralph Lauren
• I could either watch it happen or be a part of it. Elon Musk
• Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. Ann Landers
• All wealth is the product of labor. John Locke
• Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. Gerald R. Ford
• To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. Pearl S. Buck
• All we can do is the best we can do. David Axelrod
• Begin anywhere. John Cage
• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. Paul Getty
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
• Dreams don’t work unless you do. John C. Maxwell
• Every noble work is at first impossible. Thomas Carlyle
• Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. Steve Wozniak
• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin
• Hard work always pays off, whatever you do. Dustin Lynch
• Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. Tim Notke
• I can and I will. Watch me. Carrie Green
• I think about my work every minute of the day. Jeff Koons
• If you’re going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
• Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. Pablo Picasso
• It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. Scott Belsky
• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Seneca
• Make each day your masterpiece. John Wooden
• Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. Margaret Thatcher
• Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. Virat Kohli
• Someday is not a day of the week. Janet Dailey
• The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest. Deepika Padukone
• We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things. Herb Kelleher
• Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day. George Allen, Sr.
• You’re blessed if you have the strength to work. Mahalia Jackson

Positive Attitude – Encouragement Quotes for Work

• I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong. Derek Jeter
• The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. Zig Ziglar
• Anything is possible if you’re willing to work for it. Rob Dyrdek
• When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day. Ella Woodword
• Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Earl Nightingale
• Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you ‘Wrong way. Turn around. ’ Oprah Winfrey
• It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali
• If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive. Kenneth Goldsmith
• If you have time to whine, then you have time to find a solution. Dee Dee Artner
• Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running. Gary Sinise
• If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore. Michele Ruiz
• If someone tells you, You can’t, they really mean, I can’t. Sean Stephenson
• Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish. Brad Henry
• Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. William Feather
• If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan. Claire Cook
• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
• I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself. Wayne W. Dyer
• I just love it when people say I can’t do it, there’s nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it. Ted Turner
• I know what I have to do, and I’m going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I’ll come out a winner, and it doesn’t matter what anyone else does. Florence Griffith Joyner
• If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing. Ernest Hemingway

Inspirational Positive Quotes for Work

• Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi
• Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator. Joseph Murray
• Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further. Thomas Carlyle
• The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. Oscar Wilde
• Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. Fernando Flores
• I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. Ayrton Senna
• All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. John Ruskin
• Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert
• Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. Satchel Paige
• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot 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 those who work with joy. Khalil Gibran
• Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Christina Rossetti
• I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave. Joseph Campbell
• He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. Dylan Thomas
• I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values. Sidney Poitier
• The more I want to get something done the less I call it work. Richard Bach
• Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. Chanakya
• I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped. Joyce Brothers
• 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. Steve Jobs
• It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin
• If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs. Dhirubhai Ambani
• Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand
• Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams. Donovan Bailey
• My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. Twyla Tharp
• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey
• If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein
• If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved. P. J. Abdul Kalam
• Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people. Tena Desae
• If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears. Simon Sinek
• If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did. Gordon Ramsay
• Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job, and life is too short for that. Tim Cook
• Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. Marina Abramovic

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