Work Quotes
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.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
All mothers are working mothers.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Let us cultivate our garden.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Work is love made visible.
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Action expresses priorities.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work.
Well done is better than well said.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
He has gained every point who has combined the useful with the pleasant.