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700 Best Blue Collar Quotes To Inspire Hard Working Workers

1. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!


2. “I am grinding while your sleeping. ” – Gary Vaynerchuk


3. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.” – Joe Girard


4. “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.


5. “Without labor, nothing prospers.” – Sophocles


6. Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.


7. “Work hard. Someone’s always watching. ”


8. If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti


9. “I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you. ” Robin S. Sharma


10. “Discomfort is the currency of your dreams. ” Brooke Castillo


11. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah Winfrey


12. “It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.” – Martina Boone


13. LeBron James


14. “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” — Ken Poirot


15. “Change is hard work.”— Billy Crystal


16. Work uplifts the workers as it keeps them productive, providing opportunities to learn and flourish in a changing economy. It takes great effort and sacrifice, but the work you do becomes part of your reward package. Enjoy everything you have this Labor Day.


17. “Greatness lives on the edge of destruction” – Will Smith


18. When I was 16 I worked in a pet store, and they fired me because . . . they had three snakes, and one day I braided them. – Steven Alexander Wright


19. “Blue-collar workers often face unique challenges that go unrecognized in society,” – Bill Gates


20. “When given an opportunity to better themselves, blue-collar workers will usually reach for it with both hands. One should never underestimate the ambition of these men and women.” – Barack Obama


21. “It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.” — Garrett Camp, Canadian entrepreneur.


22. “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.”– Pablo Picasso


23. “People doing good work feel good and people doing exceptional work feel exceptional. Accomplishments contribute greatly to satisfaction.” — Mark Sanborn, Author and professional speaker.


24. “Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?” — Michelle Obama


25. Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts


26. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ―Mark Twain


27. If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working hard for someone who does.


28. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” — Oprah Winfrey


29. The rest will follow


30. The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it. - Anonymous


31. “The goal is not simply to ‘work hard, play hard.’ The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.” – Simon Sinek


32. The ones who say you can’t are too afraid you will.


33. This Labor Day, I hope you all look back over the past year and feel good about all we have done together. Congratulations on your outstanding work and enjoy your well-deserved time off! Let this Labor Day recharge your batteries and come back ready to conquer new heights!


34. “Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ” – Thomas A. Edison


35. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going


36. “Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U. S. Department of Labor – 100 years of working for America’s workers. ” — Tom Perez


37. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


38. “I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.” – Will Smith


39. I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock. — Henny Youngman


40. A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.


41. Sanchita Pandey Believes the Future can be Changed


42. “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”


43. Lailah Akita Believes it can be Done


44. Thomas Jefferson Believes Luck and Word are Related


45. Learning never exhausts the mind. —Leonardo Da Vinci


46. “There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.” – H.M. Tomlinson


47. Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t. — Gertrude B. Elion, Biochemist and Nobel Prize Winner


48. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist.


49. “I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed wonders. – George P. Burnham


50. “Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. ” – William Feather


51. Vaibhav Shah


52. “There is no substitute for hard work. ”


53. “It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth


54. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. - Pele


55. “All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point. ” – Eric Thomas


56. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. —Marie Curie


57. Farooq Shiekh Believes Limits are Endless


58. I would rather risk wearing out than rusting out.


59. “A blue-collar dad isn’t just a mechanic or a construction worker, he’s a tireless provider, a champion in his home, a man of integrity, and a person of strong principles.” –John Kasich


60. Becoming is better than being. —Carol Dweck, Mindset


61. “Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are. ” – Chinese proverb


62. “I never did anything for money. It was never about money. My experience is when people do things for money, you make bad decisions. ” – Will Smith


63. “Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers. ” — Robert Green Ingersoll


64. “I don’t have a blue-collar job. It’s more of a green collar, because of all the yellow sweat stains mixing in. ” - Jarod Kintz


65. “There’s a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history, you have to believe that something different can happen. ” – Will Smith


66. “It’s only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy, and resolute courage , that we move on to better things.” – Theodore Roosevelt


67. Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you're finished. — Leslie Nielsen


68. “You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.”— Larry Page, American computer scientist.


69. “A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ” Allan Bloom


70. Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar. - Drew Carey


71. On the eve of Labor Day weekend, it’s a good time to take stock of all you have accomplished this past year. Some of them have been immediately obvious, and others have taken time to fully blossom. As we approach the last quarter of the year and begin to plan for next year, I hope you appreciate what a great job you have done over the last 12 months. Thank you a thousand times and have a great Labor Day weekend!


72. Beverly Sills Believe Hard Work Brings You Where You Want to Go


73. “The hard work puts you where the good luck can find you.” Anonymous


74. “Play hard, work hard, love hard… the bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something, no matter how small it is, to make the world a better place.” – Michael Shermer


75. Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, ‘Do I really want to do this?'”


76. Unless someone like you care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not. —Dr. Suess, the Lorax


77. “The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who want our labor on the cheap. ” – Codie Sanchez


78. “You don’t achieve success, you attract success.” — Farshad Asl, Entrepreneur.


79. Your selfless service to the greater community is helping us all get through these tough times. Happy labor day to you all.


80. “People who work hard really appreciate the things they get in life.” – Unknown


81. Labor Day is the perfect time to show gratitude for the incredible job you do every day. Please know that your efforts are always noticed and appreciated. Keep up the great work!


82. “Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it. ” — Madeleine L’Engle


83. “A great man is always willing to be little. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


84. “Don’t write about him. Don’t try to describe him. Just watch him.”


85. “I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it. ” Terry Pratchett


86. Mary Sage Nguyen Values Work


87. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. - Will Smith


88. “Don’t work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition. ” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr


89. “Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something. ” – Kevin Hart


90. “Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life. ” – Tyler Perry


91. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. ” – Bernard M. Baruch


92. Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. — Thomas Jefferson


93. “Take a rest. A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” – Ovid


94. “Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey. ” – Urijah Faber


95. “I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.” – Sigmund Freud


96. “The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. ” —Luc de Clapiers


97. “Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.”


98. “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Charles Darwin


99. “I know who I am, I know what I believe, and that’s all I need to know.” – Will Smith


100. Conor McGregor doesn’t Believe in his Talent


101. “Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. ” – Samuel Gompers


102. Elaine Welteroth


103. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ” - Saint Francis


104. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.


105. “A beach bum is just a blue-collar lounge lizard without a roof over their head.”


106. “The blue collar isn’t just a way of life, it’s a badge of honor. No matter what our success, we must be good stewards of its achievements.” –John Kasich


107. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. ”― Phil Jackson


108. Mark Victor Hansen


109. Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. — Malcolm Gladwell


110. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. —Stephen Covey


111. Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. - Michel Tournier


112. “If you don’t work hard for your dreams you are going to end up being mediocre.” ATGW


113. Getting paid to sleep... that's my dream job.​ –Unknown


114. “Some May Have More Talent Than You, But There Is No Excuse For Working Harder Than You.”


115. “The blue-collar women of America are role models in the workplace, in their homes and in their communities.” – Nancy Pelosi


116. Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have


117. “Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. ” – Voltaire


118. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”― Douglas Adams


119. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.


120. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds” – .Gordon B. Hinckley


121. Each worker contributes to the collective success of the organization. This is why our company thanks you today for all that you have done to contribute to our business success.


122. “In order to escape the lifestyle that everyone else saw for me I had to move, I had to make changes. ” – Codie Sanchez


123. “Fight if you must, work hard, give your best but never quit in the face of difficulty.” – Sanchita Pandey


124. “Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams. ” — Donovan Bailey


125. “It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.” — Brian Tracy, Canadian-American motivational speaker and self-development author.


126. “Our police officers are on the front line of a battle to maintain control of our streets.” –Priti Patel


127. Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want


128. Fortune sides with him who dares.


129. “Success doesn’t come to you, you have to work for it. ” – Anonymous


130. “All wealth is the product of labor. ” — John Locke


131. ‘Losing my startup almost broke me. Two years later, I’ve changed my life and 1000s of others.’


132. “It’s a dead-end street if you sit around waiting for someone else to tell you you’re okay. ” – Michael Pitt


133. Nothing worth having comes easy. - Theodore Roosevelt


134. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


135. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. ”― Douglas Adams


136. “If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little.” – Richelle Goodrich


137. “You get what you work for, not what you wish for.” – Anonymous


138. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. ”


139. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale


140. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. —Margaret Mead


141. “There’s something to be said for people who work with their hands and build things.”– Jake Owen


142. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it


143. “Dubai is a safe place, and I never came across anything to worry about. ”


144. Labor Day is a reminder of the hard work you have done all year long. It does not go unnoticed. We are tremendously grateful for the rare and highly productive human activity you make happen every workday. The genius of your teamwork is what makes this company what it is. Thank you.


145. “Take rest. A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” – Ovid


146. “I’m never satisfied. I always push my limits and I always try to get better every day. ” – Lionel Messi


147. Muhammad Ali


148. “Nobody ever said that blue-collar work is easy, but it’s worth it.” — Unknown


149. Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. - Patrick Süskind


150. Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. - Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson


151. “If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you’d be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree.” – Michael Bassey Johnson


152. “You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.”


153. You will succeed!


154. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment


155. Fight till the last gasp. —William Shakespeare, Henry VI


156. “It takes sacrifice as well as talent. ” – Lionel Messi


157. “You can leave Dubai, but it will never leave you. ” Anonymous


158. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”— Aristotle


159. If you don’t work hard for your dreams you are going to end up being mediocre. - ATGW


160. “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” — Elbert Hubbard.


161. “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”


162. “All good work requires self-revelation.” – Sidney Lumet


163. “Like every other house-renting, paycheck-to-paycheck, heel dragging working American, it wouldn't matter if I stepped in it by accident or was pushed, or simply whiffed it as I walked by. With the powers in play, guilt or innocence had nothing to do with anything.”


164. “We make so many things that don’t require the longevity that plastic has – we don’t need a straw that we will use to sip one drink that will stay in the environment forever.” — Heidi


165. “Self-confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.” – Confidence quote


166. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”


167. “It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures. ” – Oprah Winfrey


168. “Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.” – Mary Roberts Rinehart


169. “I am not the same as 10 years ago, but I know I have things I did not have 10 years ago. ” – Lionel Messi


170. “Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.” – Ed Bradley


171. “There is no easy way. There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline. ” – Jocko Willink


172. Hard work does pay off


173. “A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn’t react with a mechanic, but a human being does.” —Randa Haines


174. “A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.”


175. “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”


176. I never viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping, I’m working. - Will Smith


177. “I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work. ”


178. “If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” John Gotti


179. “Remember the motto: ‘Work hard, play hard.’ Regard your personal time as just as important as your work time and give as much attention to planning it as you do to planning your work. What are you working for if you don’t have a personal life?” – Mark Forster


180. “Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.” – Unknown


181. Leo Tolstoy182. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”


183. Vince Lombardi


184. “If you work hard, you can accomplish anything.” -Anonymous


185. “It is labor indeed that puts the difference on everything. ” – John Locke


186. “When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that’s a really good feeling.”— Derek Jeter


187. “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius


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


189. 4k views190. There should be more than one annual event honoring workers because the work that you do is important for you, your family, your community and the entire nation. Have a fun-filled peaceful Labor Day.


191. “Industrial pollution and the discarding of plastic waste must be tackled for the sake of all life in the ocean.” – David Attenborough


192. Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers. – Proverb 10:26


193. Malcolm Gladwell


194. “There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas A. Edison


195. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ” — Martin Luther King, Jr


196. If a man chooses a certain Way and seems to have no particular talent for this way, he can still become a master if he so wants. By keeping in a specific form of study, a man can attain perfection either in this life or the next.


197. “The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is, I am not afraid to die on a treadmill. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me. But if we get on the treadmill together, there’s two things. You are getting off first. Or I am going to die. It’s that simple. ” – Will Smith


198. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” — Rob Kalin, American entrepreneur.


199. “Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.”— Reed Hastings, American businessman and co-chief executive officer of Netflix.


200. “Put the Child in Class Not in Glass.”


201. “Fear kills your ability to see beauty.” – Will Smith


202. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”


203. “Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise, you just get confused.” – Cliff Burton


204. “I’m entirely uneducated. I went to public school – public in the American sense – a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.” – Rupert Graves


205. “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ” – Horace


206. “I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.”


207. Mitch Albom Creates his own List


208. “Hard work betrays none. ” – Hachiman Hikigaya


209. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ” – Napoleon Hill


210. ‘It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.’–Unknown


211. “If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.” – Dale Carnegie


212. “Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” – Harvey Mackay


213. “With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything. ” – Antoine Griezmann


214. “Before the reward, there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.” – Ralph Ransom


215. “Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper – but in practice, too many break their pledge. ” Ban Ki-moon


216. “Behold the red and gold of the sunset. This is Dubai at its most picturesque, when the sun leaves a shimmering blaze of dusk on sails as buildings, boats and bridges twinkle in the distance all around. ” Anonymous


217. Rosie Thomas Believes in Aligning Our Ambitions


218. Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. — Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt


219. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”


220. “I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy. ”


221. “If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there. ” - Joyce Chapman


222. “Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ” – Richard Kline


223. com224. The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me? —Ayn Rand


225. Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.


226. “With an enthusiastic team, you can achieve almost anything.” — Tahir Shah, British author, journalist, and documentary maker.


227. “You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough. ” – Lionel Messi


228. “All people who work with their hands are partly invisible, and the more important the work they do, the more invisible they are. ” — George Orwell


229. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work. ” – Stephen King


230. The reward for good work is more work. – Francesca Elisia


231. “an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it seems extrinsic and is perpetually uninvolving. One is relentlessly overwhelmed and understimulated all at the same time.”


232. “No one ever drowned in sweat.”— USMC Officer


233. “People first, then money, then things. ” – Suze Orman


234. No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early. — Groucho Marx


235. “TV’s hard work. I don’t know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing ‘Murder, She Wrote’ all those years. ”


236. “Montreal is a great town. There’s equal parts blue-collar town.” – Jay Baruchel


237. Work incessantly, but be not attached to it


238. “I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don’t seem to care.” – George Pelecanos


239. There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.​ — David Letterman


240. “Blue collar workers are the backbone of this nation. They do the grunt work that the rest of us take for granted.” –Barack Obama


241. Prabakaran Thirumalai Believes Hard work Outweighs Smart Work


242. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.” — Stephen King


243. Embrace the pain


244. On Labor Day, we salute our employees. Your contribution to the success of this company is hard to overestimate, and we thank you for your efforts. Happy Labor Day.


245. If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us


246. “Some girls can’t go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking in the world.” – Malala Yousafzai


247. “There’s confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level competition, whatever the sport it. Whether it’s boxing or wrestling, or whatever. ” – Joe Rogan


248. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. - Alan Alda


249. Estee Lauder


250. You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind. —Irish Proverb


251. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle


252. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. —Plato


253. “Blue collar work is important work. It’s the backbone of society.” – Joe Biden


254. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. — Vidal Sassoon


255. If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing. — Marc Chagall


256. “Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.” – Booker Washington


257. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better. ” – Jim Rohn


258. Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. - John Carmack


259. When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played. - Dr. Seuss


260. “Work like a captain. Play like a pirate.” – Unknown


261. “The only way to reach success is through hard work and dedication.” – Stephen Covey


262. The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day


263. We are happy and smiling because you are there to labour for us each and every day. Thank you love and wish you a very Happy Labour Day.


264. “If you’re too comfortable it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.”


265. Charlotte Bronte Knows the Best is not Always Enough


266. “I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.” – Lionel Messi


267. Be thankful for what you have. Work hard for what you don’t have. - Anonymous


268. “The path to wealth isn’t always a new social media or AI startup. People eat, sleep, live, and often work outside of the internet. Money is everywhere. ” – Codie Sanchez


269. “The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t prepared to work for.” Habeeb Akande


270. “Above all, the blue-collar woman is a leader, setting an example and inspiring those around her to strive for excellence.” – Nikki Haley


271. “I’ve heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I’ve never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work. ” — Uzo Aduba


272. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee


273. “Give the child a pencil, but not a plate to wash.”


274. “Change won’t happen because everyone wishes it happens.” – Isrealmore Ayivor


275. If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.


276. Hire character. Train skill. — Peter Schutz


277. We appreciate your hard work and know that no car can run forever without fuel. Take some well-earned time off to recharge your batteries, and happy Labor Day weekend!


278. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi


279. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. - Earl Nightingale


280. If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like or who you love


281. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. ” – Booker T. Washington


282. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. ” — Babe Ruth


283. Appreciation Quotes For Good Work


284. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.” – Vince Lombardi


285. “Discomfort is a wise teacher. ” Caroline Myss


286. “One day or day one. You decide.”


287. “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ” — Elbert Hubbard


288. The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you’re finished.


289. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. ” — Muhammad Ali


290. Luck is great, but most of life is hard work


291. Criss Jami Quotes the Famous Philosopher


292. “The smarter the question, the lesser the guessing.” – Aniekee Ezekiel


293. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. ” – Lily Tomlin


294. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”


295. “His hands are rough. He has dirt under his nails. He’s up early. He’s home late. His jeans are torn, his shirts are stained, and it’s a chore to dress him up. He’s perfect.”


296. “Don’t give up because things are hard, but work harder when you think of giving up.” – Anthony Liccione


297. “We should be encouraging — not penalizing — folks who want to pursue higher education. ” Sharice Davids


298. The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. — Ginger Rogers


299. “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.” – Nora Roberts


300. “Push, push. Push harder!” – Lailah Akita


301. “Life isn’t always really glamorous and fabulous. It’s about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty. ” Zoe Foster Blake


302. “The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.” – Michio Kaku


303. “Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.” (Booker T. Washington)


304. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses–behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. ”


305. “Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. ” – Theodore Roosevelt


306. “The degree of your desire determines your dedication.” – Lailah Akita


307. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. —Salvador Dali


308. “Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. ” — George Sand


309. Lailah Akita Breaks Success Down Mathematically


310. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the services of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi


311. “There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” – Alan Cohen


312. “My theory is, if you look confident you can pull off anything, even if you have no clue what you are doing.” – Jessica Alba


313. “I’m a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it’s frivolous or superficial, but it’s not that way at all. It’s actually very hard work. ”


314. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. ”


315. Quality is job one. —Henry Ford


316. “Life balance is a myth. It’s an illusion, and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me, it’s about proportion. It’s really a work hard, play hard equation.” – Danielle LaPorte


317. “All wealth is the product of labor. ” – John Locke


318. “We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that. ” Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum


319. Let's get sweaty!


320. “I want little girls to grow up knowing they can do anything, even play football.” — Jen Welter, American football coach.


321. “Preparation to success is hard work of daily practice with improvement.” – Millie Dewitt


322. “For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering. ” Billy Porter


323. “A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” — Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.


324. “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” Theodore Roosevelt


325. “Goals are only important if they win games. ” – Lionel Messi


326. “There is no doubt. It is certain that I will be 100 percent. ” – Lionel Messi


327. “Self-confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response. ” – Simon Sinek


328. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. —Michael Jordan


329. “Hard work is what separates the winners from the losers.” ATGW


330. “Stop doubting yourself, work hard, and make it happen.” Anonymous


331. Overcome the luck


332. “The road to power is in taking responsibility.” – Will Smith


333. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro, Japanese author.


334. “Without labor nothing prospers.” – Sophocles


335. “People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most. ” – Wayne Dyer


336. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ” – Michael Jordan


337. “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play.” — Arnold J. Toynbee


338. The best kind of reward


339. Aniekee Ezekiel Says Work for Tomorrow


340. “No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor” – Andre Gide


341. “You may not know it’s coming / But it’s coming, almost die / Labor Day’s around the corner / Happy Labor Day to You!” — Jim Lowery


342. “No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” — Jessica Savitch, American television news presenter.


343. “Once the sand of Dubai has settled on your shoulders, you can never shake it off. ” Anonymous


344. Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower. —Steve Jobs


345. “Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ” – Joseph Joubert


346. “Hard work works!” – Denzel Washington


347. “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off. ”


348. “Never expect anyone to give you what you want. Work hard, show some dedication and go get it yourself. ” Anonymous


349. You be greater than your feelings. I don’t demand this of you—life does. Otherwise, you’ll be washed away by feelings. You’ll be washed out to sea and never seen again. — Phillip Roth, Indignation


350. This Labor Day, I want to say how much I appreciate the effort you all have put into your work. I hope it brings you as much satisfaction as it does me. Let’s conquer this industry together!


351. “I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words. ”


352. Napoleon Hill


353. “In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort. ” Bertrand Russell


354. “If you don’t burn out at the end of each day, you’re a bum. ” — George Lois


355. “There’s no way around hard work. Embrace it.” – Roger Federer


356. “Confidence is not ‘They will like me. ’ Confidence is ‘I’ll be find if they don’t’. ” – Christina Grimme


357. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. ” – Louis Pasteur


358. “Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ” - Robert Hall


359. “Doing nothing is very hard to do; you never know when you’re finished.” Leslie Nielsen


360. The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents. — Antos Parrish


361. “A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things. ” – Ralph Lauren


362. Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.​ — Homer Simpson


363. “Appreciate the blue-collar class; they are the heart of the country” – Unknown


364. What I love most about rivers is, you can’t step in the same river twice. —Pocahontas, Disney’s Pocahontas


365. If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he were any smarter.


366. “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”— Calvin Coolidge


367. “As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.” – Bret Michaels


368. Sanchita Pandey Values Perseverance


369. “The road to success come through hard work, determination, and sacrifice. ” –Dolzinski


370. “The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream. ” – Tommy Hilfiger


371. Manoj Arora Understands What Separates People


372. Apolo Ohno


373. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” G.K. Nielson


374. Drew Houston


375. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe Knows Success Takes Time


376. “Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don’t be bound by rules. Don’t hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else’s dream.” – Shah Rukh Khan


377. “To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all, cherish a magnificent obsession. ” Walt Disney


378. “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison


379. Make each day your masterpiece. - John Wooden


380. Baker Mayfield


381. “I think fans cling to me because I’m a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city.” – Hines Ward


382. If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. - Jack Dixon


383. “Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break. ” ― Akiroq Brost


384. “All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.” — Bill Vaughan


385. The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied


386. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill. ― Ai Weiwei


387. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. ” — Dale Carnegie


388. “Whether you’re blue collar or white collar, you should always strive for excellence.” – Unknown


389. “Hard work makes you feel good because you have accomplished something.” – Alcurtis Tumer


390. “Without labor nothing prospers.” — Sophocles


391. ‘A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the. way for others.’ –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk


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


393. “Without work, men are utterly undone. ” ― Nevil Shute


394. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves. —Chanakya


395. “Work hard and become a leader, be lazy and become a slave. ” Anonymous


396. “Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.” – Lionel Messi


397. Lailah Akita Values Hard Work


398. “Hip-hop had become overly aspirational and shiny, full of vivid technicolors. Cosmetic fronting was not part of the ethos of our get down. Our get down was more blue collar. Our aspirations were to shine a light on the plight and experience of the inner cities of America.” – Lyor Cohen


399. Isrealmore Ayivor Prefers Work Over Wishes


400. If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault. ” - Orson Scott Card


401. Ken Poirot Believes the Nicest People are Hard Workers


402. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” — John C. Maxwell


403. People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get


404. “I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other. ” Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum


405. If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. – Malcolm Gladwell


406. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic. ” – Stephen C. Hogan


407. “There is no CEO, no janitor, just people.”


408. “Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans. ” — James P. Hoffa


409. Japanese Proverb Says Work Hard When You’re Young


410. “Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.” – Gerry Cooney


411. “In the blue-collar world, it’s all about the team and not the individual,” – Barack Obama


412. “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” Kyle Chandler


413. Jim Rohn Believes is Easy to Obtain


414. Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he’d had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life


415. “Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training. ” – Lionel Messi


416. “The road to sustained happiness is through discipling your behavior. ” – Will Smith


417. “God cannot be everywhere so He sent the Doctors with excellence and selflessness. Happy Labor day to all the physicians.


418. If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work. — Woody Allen


419. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” -Vince Lombardi


420. Walter Bagehot


421. “You may not know it’s coming / But it’s coming, almost die / Labor Day’s around the corner / Happy Labor Day to You!” — Jim Lowery.


422. “I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ” – Margaret Mead


423. “You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be. ” – Will Smith


424. “Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.” — Abraham Lincoln


425. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.


426. “Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I’ve pretty much adopted that.” – James Patterson


427. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. — Rumi


428. “Being unpopular and being okay with it, will set your free. It will teach you that you can speak your mind, and not care what others think. ” – Codie Sanchez


429. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. ” — Ralph Waldo Emerson


430. “You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. ” Tom Hopkins


431. “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in. ” – Ariana Huffington


432. “Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. ” — Samuel Gompers


433. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”


434. “I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work. ”


435. “I’m always kind of doing something — there’s never really any downtime. ” – Henry Rollins


436. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. —Ralph Waldo Emerson


437. “Let’s do what we love, and do a lot of it.” — Marc Jacobs


438. “Self-confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening. ” – Confidence quote


439. “Maybe your idea will be a huge success. Maybe it’ll be a small flame. Don’t you owe it to yourself to find out?” — Bianca Bass


440. “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. ” – Marcus Garvey


441. “Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life. ” Susan David


442. “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”― Jerome K. Jerome


443. “Every day might not have a fortune, but to a blue-collar worker, they have earned their own little slice of heaven.” – Unknown


444. “Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him.”— Eliel Pierre


445. “Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. ” – James Allen


446. “Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” — Grace Abbott


447. “All happiness depends on courage and work. ”― Honoré de Balzac


448. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison


449. “Me and my band have always lived by the code ‘Work hard, play harder,’” – Kenny Chesney


450. “I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.”— Criss Jami


451. “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”


452. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho


453. “You are basically a blue-collar worker out there. You’re the man behind the quarterback and the person that makes everything run… You’re in every play. You have to be ready to take on any challenge.” – Jacobe Kendrick


454. “I never really thought that I was going to be good or not, I just wanted to make my dream come true. ” – Lionel Messi


455. “Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love. ” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana


456. To achieve what 1% of the world’s population has, you must be willing to do what only 1% dares to do


457. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ” – Colin Powell


458. The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action


459. “Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.”— Helen Hanson


460. “As a blue-collar dad, I want to make sure that my kids are going to school with their eyes open, learning from the best and excelling when they get there.” – Robert D. Gray


461. Many of life’s failures are experiences by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. — Thomas Edison


462. Israelmore Ayivor Believes People Need to Enlarge Their Dreams


463. “Build your life or someone else will hire your to build theirs. ” – Will Smith


464. “Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”


465. Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far. - Gary Vaynerchuk


466. “If a man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.” — Abraham Lincoln


467. “Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.”— Criss Jami


468. Isrealmore Ayivor Believes the Harder You Work the Better Life Is


469. “Hard work, dedication!”


470. The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.


471. Ludwig Von Mises Believes Self-Mastery is Best


472. “Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it. ” – Charlie Munger


473. “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.


474. If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. — Claude McDonald


475. 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


476. Maggie Stiefvater has a Message for Millennials


477. Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. - Arnold H. Glasow


478. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”


479. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” Dalai Lama


480. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. – Tim Notke


481. “Dubai was founded on trade, not oil. ” Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum


482. “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”


483. “To me, country music’s about life. It’s about Monday through Friday. it’s the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that’s still the same. It’s still American music.” – Unknown


484. “Don’t expect others to hand success to you. Create it.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru


485. Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.


486. “To deny your discomfort is ultimately to deny part of yourself. ” Sterling Hawkins


487. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”


488. It doesn’t matter how high your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.


489. “You know, I understand the way that some people view manual labor. With a kind of sneer, looking down your nose at it, like it’s less. But I’ve never found anything more satisfying than going out and making a change with my own two hands. Seeing a project through from start to finish, knowing that what I did…that it changed something. The shape of an object, the landscape. When you’re fighting fires, that your hands helped put up the blockade that preserved the wilderness. That you dug those trenches, ran those fire lines that saved houses, trees, animals. Lives. There’s no shame in it.”


490. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. — Carl Sagan


491. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses.” Kobe Bryant


492. “Change is hard work. ” - Billy Crystal


493. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan


494. “Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.” – Booker T. Washington


495. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”


496. “Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there. ” - Haile Gebrselassie


497. “Be a worthy worker and work will come. ” ― Amit Kalantri


498. 1k views499. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. ” – Johnny Depp


500. “The key to making money is to stay invested. ” – Suze Orman


501. “Blue-collar work is honest work. Hard work shouldn’t be looked down upon, it should be celebrated.” – Sean Hannity


502. “I decided that I would never walk into a room and do anything other than inspire, uplift, and enlighten people — help people be the greater versions of themselves. ” – Will Smith


503. On Labor Day, stop and smell the barbecue. Relax by the pool, and enjoy the last days of summer with those who motivate you to give your best at work all the time. Happy Labor Day to you and yours!


504. Barack Obama


505. “All my life, I’ve had a fear of being told what to say, so I’m not telling people what to think. I’m encouraging them to say what they think. ” Yungblud


506. “Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. ” – H. L. Hunt


507. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. ” – Helen Keller


508. “Don’t tell me that knowledge isn’t power.” – Brandi Bates


509. “Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. ” – William Arthur Ward


510. “Labor is the fabled magician’s wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. ” — James Weldon Johnson


511. In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. — Jane Smiley


512. “Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.” – Ludwig Von Mises


513. “Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally. It comes from what you do consistently.” – Marie Forleo


514. “Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness. ” – Galen


515. For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation—the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing—is essential for high levels of creativity. —Daniel H. Pink, Drive


516. Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.


517. “If you are not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk. ” – Suze Orman


518. “Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work. ” — Booker T. Washington


519. I learned the value of hard work by working hard. - Margaret Mead


520. “All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.” Anonymous


521. “Lean into the discomfort of the work. ” Brené Brown


522. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ” – George Lorimer


523. “Your hard work and dedication will always pay off in the end.” – Unknown


524. A watched pot never boils


525. “A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.” – Elbert Hubbard


526. “I have learned that real angels don’t have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days’ sweat.”— Richard Evans


527. “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”


528. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."— Beverly Sills


529. A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. - Sarah Price


530. Work hard and become a leader, be lazy, and become a slave.


531. “The only thing that has kept me around is my effort. ” – Will Smith


532. Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get


533. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ” —Thomas Edison


534. “If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.” — Doug Larson


535. “Be humble. Bu hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.” Dwayne Johnson


536. “If you don’t burn out at the end of each day, you’re a bum.”— George Lois


537. “The world’s most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.” – Ben Parr


538. “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it. ” —Tricia Cunningham


539. If your success was earned through hard work and honesty never apologize for it. - Frank Sonnenberg


540. “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”


541. “The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein


542. Lailah Akita Believes Certain People Achieve Success


543. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ” – Confucius


544. 5 Labor Day in Canada


545. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.”


546. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. — Peter Drucker


547. “My father was a blue-collar man, and I’m proud of the work I do. That pride comes from understanding the hard work and dedication required for success.” –Sherrod Brown


548. “I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. ” —Maria Bartiromo


549. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds


550. “The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”— John Ruskin


551. “Give your girl child pencil, but not to wash utensil.”


552. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” – Conan O’Brien


553. “A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. ” – Elbert Hubbard


554. I would rather have one article a day of this sort, and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.


555. “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.” Anonymous


556. “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. ” – Dwight D. Eisenhower


557. “Success isn’t owned. It’s leased, and rent is due every day. ” – J. J. Watt


558. 8k views559. “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. ” – Booker T. Washington


560. “It is labor indeed that puts the difference on everything.” — John Locke


561. “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he’d had three months to write, which was due the next day.


562. No one ever drowned in sweat


563. “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” Steve Jobs


564. A collection of words of wisdom from people who have great achievements in life


565. “Everybody Wants To Be Famous But Nobody Wants To Do The Work!” – Kevin Hart


566. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”


567. Pelé568. “No human masterpiece has been created without great labour. ” — Andre Gide


569. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.


570. “Nothing will work unless you do. ” — Maya Angelou


571. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”


572. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. ” — Napoleon Hill


573. “The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. ” – Will Smith


574. Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. - Dwayne Johnson


575. “Companies don’t want you to have multiple revenue streams because then they can’t own you. ” – Codie Sanchez


576. “There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations. ” David Grinspoon


577. “A blue-collar worker is the driving force of this country.” – Jeff Foxworthy


578. “There is no substitute for hard work.”— Thomas A. Edison


579. “There are several different kinds of painful feelings we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops. ” Jack Kornfield


580. “Take rest. A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ” — Ovid


581. “A CEO is largely a captain, helping to steer. Small micromovements are critical. One degree off a day will get you lost. ” – Codie Sanchez


582. “Love yourself enough to work harder. ” Anonymous


583. “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”


584. “Owning a home is a keystone of wealth – both financial affluence and emotional security. ” – Suze Orman


585. Knowing I’ve got this beautiful baby to go home to makes me feel like I don’t have to play another match. I don’t need the money or the titles or the prestige. I want them, but I don’t need them. That’s a different feeling for me.


586. “If suddenly the whole workers of the whole world disappear, then the whole world will stop! Let us all realize this and let us celebrate the workers – these great people who make our world move!” — Mehmet Murat ildan


587. “Greatness exists in all of us. ” – Will Smith


588. Which are you?


589. “You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”


590. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. – Earl Nightingale


591. “Hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but improves its chances. ” – B. J. Gupta


592. “A bad day at work is better than a good day in hell.” —


593. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ” – Peter Drucker


594. “Socialist William Kruse explained that the roots of the labor holiday go back to ancient Rome and sacrifices to Mai, Mother Earth, and Flora, goddess of flowers. ” — Colin Fisher


595. “True heroes are made of hard work and integrity.” — Hope Solo, American former soccer goalkeeper.


596. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll find will be yourself.


597. “Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.” — Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder and CEO of Asana.


598. “The dignity of labor is part of a blue-collar worker’s character; success requires more than just sweat and tears.” – Unknown


599. “Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ” —Ralph Ransom


600. Skill is what we give back


601. “Employment is nature’s physician and is essential to human happiness. ” — Galen


602. “Money is such an amazing teacher. What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless. ” – Suze Orman


603. I am more worried about being a good person than being the best footballer in the world. ” – Lionel Messi


604. “This is just the beginning of a new era for America’s workers. ” — James P. Hoffa


605. When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity


606. “Do the things you like to be happier, stronger & more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by dedication.”— Rossana Condoleo


607. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses. ”


608. Hard work teaches us that it takes more than hard work


609. Bruce Lee610. What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


611. Hard work is what separates the winners from the losers. - ATGW


612. Never expect anyone to give you what you want. Work hard, show some dedication, and get it yourself.


613. “A blue-collar woman is the backbone of our society, and she should be honored for all the hard work she does.” – Bobbi Brown


614. “Blood, sweat and respect. The first two you give, the last one you get.”


615. You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it pulling out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you. - Tony Morgan


616. All good work requires self-revelation. - Sidney Lumet


617. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there


618. Bring the fire


619. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”


620. “Take a chance. It’s the best way to test yourself. Have fun and push boundaries.” – Richard Branson


621. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill


622. Ready to spice things up.


623. “All you have to do, gentlemen, for you have the numbers, is to unite on one idea - that the workingmen shall rule the country. What man makes, belongs to him, and the workingman made this country.”


624. I’ve learned about the poetry and the wisdom and the grace that can be found in the words of people all around us when we simply take the time to listen. —Dave Isay


625. Mokokoma Mokhonoana Values Love in Mastery


626. It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. —Joseph Campbell


627. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. —Stephen Hawking


628. Why are you keeping this curiosity door locked? ― Dustin, Stranger Things


629. I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. - Maria Bartiromo


630. Make each day your masterpiece.


631. “Do the things you like to be happier, stronger & more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by dedication. - Rossana Condoleo


632. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. - Newt Gingrich


633. Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. —Jim Hensen


634. “Don’t expect others to hand success to you. Create it.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru


635. “There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” — Henry Ford


636. It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you. — Dwight D. Eisenhower


637. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. ” – Roy T. Bennett


638. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose. ” - G. K. Nelson


639. “Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”— Robert Hall


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


641. The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day. — Wayne Gretzky


642. Tim Ferris643. “Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.” – George A. Romero


644. I would rather die of passion than of boredom


645. Delegate your work. Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs. — Mary Kay Ash


646. “I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses. ”


647. “Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.” — Phil Jackson, American former professional basketball player and coach.


648. “Blue-collar work is what builds America. It’s how we got to the top.” – John Kasich


649. “You don’t have to be great at something to start but you have to start to be great at something.”


650. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ― Mahatma Gandhi


651. “Growth inherently requires us to tolerate discomfort. ” Butler J. Raines


652. The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What’s the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you’d get a pulse. — Dennis Miller


653. If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures


654. “The road to success come through hard work, determination, and sacrifice.” Dolzinski


655. “There is a peak and valley to careers and that includes fame. If you are lucky to ride this wave to fame to a plateau – it won’t last there. I guess it is just a blue-collar work ethic that I was raised with.” – Bryan Cranston


656. “Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place.” — Satya Nadella, Indian-American business executive.


657. “If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are. ” – George C. Hubbs


658. Happy Labour Day to my husband. There is no way we all thank you for working hard to give us the best of the life.


659. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”


660. “What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it’s the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who’s going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?” – Joan Blades


661. There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.


662. “I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday. ” – Will Smith


663. Be wrinkle-free!


664. “For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it’s office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.” – Tom Peters


665. “In this game, everyone needs a break to refuel, recharge, and jump back in full throttle. ” ― Helen Edwards, Nothing Sexier Than Freedom


666. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. – Charlie McCarthy


667. A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure. — Henry Kissenger


668. “Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied. ” Martin Garrix


669. The thickest sweats produce the sweetest life.


670. Sunday Adelaja Believes Hard Work Creates Wealth


671. “Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams. ” – Ben Carson


672. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”


673. My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I'm still at work. — Author Unknown


674. Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. But everything is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part. It's an adventure in itself. — Nick Carter


675. “Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect. ” - Luther Campbell


676. “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


677. “You are working so hard not to fail. You have to start working hard to succeed. ” – Steve Harvey


678. “Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”


679. “Never expect anyone to give you what you want. Work hard, show some dedication and go get it yourself.” Anonymous


680. “Confidence is the willingness to try.” – Mel Robbins


681. My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed


682. One must work and dare if one really wants to live


683. “America needs football. It’s a real blue-collar sport; it’s played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that’s the backbone of this country.” – Troy Polamalu


684. Dear Mom, you have always been a supermom and a superwoman. A warm hug and big thank you to you for putting in so much of hard work for us. Happy Labour Day.


685. “You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.” –


686. “When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work. ”


687. “A dream doesn’t become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. ” Colin Powell


688. Something is empowering about going, “Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!” That’s the beautiful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just do.


689. “Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.” — Bill Dodds


690. “Listen Mr. Namaki, you're a king to me


691. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so. – Douglas Adams


692. “Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.” — Simon Sinek, Author and inspirational speaker.


693. “A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic – as the scholars call it. – Abilities.” – Daniel H. Pink


694. “When you strip the bark off of Donald Trump, I think he’s a very practical person. I think he’s a very smart person. He’s got an analytical mind. I think he’s tapped into something. His son said he’s the “blue collar billionaire.” – Anthony Scaramucci


695. “When we think of blue-collar women, we often overlook their resilience and fortitude, but they are an integral part of our workforce and are often the catalyst for progress and change.” – Ellen DeGeneres


696. “When you are grateful — when you can see what you have — you unlock blessings to flow in your life. ” – Suze Orman


697. “You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit. ” – Suze Orman


698. The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain


699. “Work is no disgrace; the disgrace is idleness. ” — Greek Proverb


700. “Set goals. Say prayers. Work hard. ” Anonymous

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