Top 100 Work For It Quotes
#1. Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.
Barack Obama
#2. Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.
Sathya Sai Baba
#3. My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.
Taylor Swift
#4. Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
Jeremy Taylor
#5. The world has no boundaries for someone who savors success and is willing to work for it.
Karen Hawkins
#6. Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.
Evan Esar
#9. Success does just happen. It happens to those who desire, plan and work for it.
Toni Sorenson
#10. My goal is to make you scream my name. Give me what I want, but make me work for it.
Olivia Cunning
#11. I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.
Madonna Ciccone
#12. The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#13. Whatever it takes, prove to yourself right now, that you deserve the wildest of dreams that you could ever imagine. BUT ... Only if you are willing to bleed, sweat and work for it.
Joel Brown
#14. Hitchhiking is not a sport. It is not an art. It certainly isn't work, for it requires no particular ability not does it produce anything of value. It's an adventure, I suppose, but a shallow ignoble adventure.
Tom Robbins
#15. I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.
Selena
#16. In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.
Sally Wentworth
#18. If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.
Dave Eggers
#19. It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.
Judith Jamison
#20. Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#21. I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.
Keanu Reeves
#22. We set forth on a journey to bring our vision to our country, to keep the American dream alive for all who are willing to work for it, to make our American community stronger, to keep America the world's strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity.
William J. Clinton
#23. If you don't want to work for it, then why farm in the first place?
Michael Levatino
#24. I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.
Michael Flatley
#26. Grace is simply the undeserved favor of God. You can't earn it, buy it, or work for it. You can only receive grace as a gift.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#27. If you want learning, you must work for it.
J.G. Holland
#28. There's nothing wrong with wanting, so long as you work for it and don't put your desires before everything else - including other people.
Robert J. Crane
#29. How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
Jim Valvano
#30. When Bernie Sanders came along, and I liked his tweets and I read more about him, researched him more, I decided I like him and his policy, even more than just I like another guy in the Democratic Party, I really believed in it. And when you believe in something, you get out and work for it.
Killer Mike
#31. Growing up in the rural south, my family didn't look like our neighbors, and we didn't have much. There were times that were tough, but we had each other, and we had the opportunity to do anything, to be anything, as long as we were willing to work for it.
Nikki Haley
#33. If you really want it, you need to really work for it.
Jesse McCartney
#34. Anything is possible as long as you want it, you work for it. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, the only person that can really put pressure on you is yourself
Michael Phelps
#35. A man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body to work for it alone, but he lives also for all men on earth; rather, he lives only for others and not for himself. To this end he brings his body into subjection that he may the more sincerely and freely serve others.
Martin Luther
#36. I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.
Julia Voth
#37. Every society needs particular individuals to do its dirty work for it.
Kevin Dutton
#38. Life is a continuous feeling wherein something you work for it to be happy in terms of your soul.
Fernando Lachica
#39. I know I can't eat whatever I want and look the way I want, so you need to work for it. I give credit to Pilates and my parents' good genes.
Genesis Rodriguez
#41. If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.
Mark Spitz
#42. No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.
Haifaa Al-Mansour
#43. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.
Ayn Rand
#44. Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#45. To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.
Yoko Ono
#47. If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons
Strive Masiyiwa
#48. People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
Perry Como
#49. I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.
Linford Christie
#50. When I woke up I reminded myself that freedom is never free. You have to fight for it. Work for it and make sure you are able to handle it. Now
Toni Morrison
#51. Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.
Pope Paul VI
#52. I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.
Wojciech Kurtyka
#53. When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#54. Everyone you meet won't wish you success that's why you work for it and give your life your best.
Kia Marie Dawkins
#55. When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much.
Katie Pavlich
#56. The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them.
Henry B. Eyring
#57. Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those who work for it!!
Sam Houssami
#58. I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
Studs Terkel
#59. I really think you can manifest your dreams. You can manifest your destiny. If you want something hard enough and you're willing to work for it, I think you can get it. I truly believe that.
Billy Magnussen
#60. Luck is a slur used against those who achieve and are willing to work for it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work for. It's a group of people that you have, these friends, and you want to know what they think. In a weird way, you're making the work for them.
Robert Longo
#62. The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.
Bell Hooks
#64. Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.
David Viscott
#65. You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
#67. Kaderin didn't believe, as a whole, the nymphs were more beautiful than the Valkyrie, but everything about them screamed, "Easy lay! When you don't want to work for it!" And curiously, many males found that more appealing than the Valkyrie's "Do it and die, simian".
Kresley Cole
#68. It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.
Harry Bates Thayer
#69. The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress upon the minds of the youth of Zion the eloquence, the inexpressible eloquence of work, I shall feel fully repaid.
Heber J. Grant
#70. Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.
Angus Wilson
#71. The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
Margaret Thatcher
#72. It is possible to get what you want in life, you must work for it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. Something just doesn't pop under your nose;you have to work for it.
LeBron James
#74. Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.
Michael Flatley
#75. Miracles happen when you get up, move and work for it.
Jeanette Coron
#76. Redemption must be earned. If we want it, we will work for it, even though we can never obtain it on our own.
Jodi Meadows
#77. Besides, I did work for it. Thievery isn't easy, you know.
Marissa Meyer
#78. Everybody is given a Dream ... you may have to work for it however ...
Richard Bach
#79. There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.
Richard Trumka
#80. Are you going to make me work for it?"
I nodded and straightened up from the post, bringing our bodies so close I could almost feel him against me. "If I don't believe I'm worth the effort, why the hell would you?
Samantha Young
#81. He believed there was nothing impossible if you desired it enough to work for it. He loved helping people live up to their potential.
Dee Henderson
#82. There is no fate ... no predestination ... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.
Ingrid Weir
#83. I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer
#84. I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.
Amber Heard
#85. The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it.
Gabriel Iglesias
#86. I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.
Percy Cerutty
#87. If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
Wendell Berry
#88. Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it.
Sri Chinmoy
#89. I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.
Sloane Crosley
#90. Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.
Augusten Burroughs
#91. What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.
Howard Zinn
#92. Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.
Carol S. Dweck
#93. Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!
Gertrude Atherton
#94. Opportunity never arrives, it only walks by. Chance never comes, it only knocks at the door. Never think the success will jump into your palms; you must work for it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
Katarina Witt
#96. My heart is in this work, for it is not a question of 'Will we win' or 'Will we lose.' We must win, and that is all there is to it.
William Kalush
#97. God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18)
Sunday Adelaja
#98. I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it.
Yo Gotti
#99. If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
John Ruskin
#100. I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
K'naan
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