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Quotes about work, craft and doing a job well. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest work quotes ever written — from Rumi, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Yeats and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

— Rumi

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

— Rumi

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

— W. B. Yeats

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

— Plato

A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun at home as his wife thinks he does at the office.

Friday is like a superhero that always arrives just in time to stop me from savagely beating one of my coworkers with a keyboard.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

— Mark Twain

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

— Aristotle

All mothers are working mothers.

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

— Confucius

Let us cultivate our garden.

— Voltaire

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Work is love made visible.

— Khalil Gibran

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

— Henry Ford

Action expresses priorities.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

— Steve Jobs

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

— Albert Einstein

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do.

— Virgil

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

— Walt Disney

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

— Voltaire

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

— Mother Teresa

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

— Benjamin Franklin

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work.

— W. B. Yeats

Well done is better than well said.

— Benjamin Franklin

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

— Thomas Edison

He has gained every point who has combined the useful with the pleasant.

— Horace

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