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Inspirational quotes are like little magic spells we carry around in our hearts and pull out to recite to make us feel better and keep us going whenever we feel discouraged.

Their simplicity and clarity of truth remind us of why we do what we do, so we can continue with the task at hand with renewed purpose and energy. Isn’t that why we love them?

Here are 25 quotes about work that I found particularly inspiring. If any of them resonate with you, write them down (or others you find) somewhere where you can refer to them easily.

25 INSPIRING QUOTES ABOUT WORK FROM FAMOUS SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

1. Mark Twain (1985 – 1910)

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it. Who was it who said, “Blessed is the man who has found his work?” Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work—not somebody else’s work. The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man’s work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.

2. Pearl S. Buck (1892 – 1973)

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

3. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959)

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

4. Gloria Steinem (1934 – present)

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

5. – 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

Don’t waste life in doubts and fears. Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

7. – 9. Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931)

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

10. – 12. Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give you happiness.

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

13. – 14. Vince Lombardi (1913 – 1970)

A dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.

Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

15. Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

16. Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

17. Stephen King (1947 – present)

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

18. Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

19. Harvey Mackay (1932 – present)

Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.

20. George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1960)

The harder I work, the more I live.

21. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow’s. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

22. Julia Cameron (1948 – present)

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

23. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948)

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

24. Saint Augustine (354 – 430)

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

25. Dale Carnegie (1888 – 1955)

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.

CONCLUSION

What are some of your favorites quotes? Please share them by leaving a comment below.

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