Motivational Work Quotes

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. ~ Helena Rubinstein

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work. ~ Louis C.K.

Everything yields to diligence ~ Thomas Jefferson

If it has to be done, you have to do it yourself. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God gives much grace for great work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Activity is not output. ~ Andy Grove

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for. ~ Criss Jami

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running. ~ Kara Goucher

The privilege to work is a gift.
The power to work is a blessing.
The love of work is success. ~ David O. McKay

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ~ Horace

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

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat. ~ Michael Jordan

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. ~ Pablo Picasso

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. ~ Chanakya

Times will change for the better when you change. ~ Maxwell Maltz

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. ~ Sasha Cohen

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

How can I forget there's just one life & so much to do.
Let me choose the best things to do & start to do. ~ Chetan M. Kumbhar

Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don't even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you'll be flying again. ~ Hayao Miyazaki

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. ~ Elie Wiesel

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. ~ Elbert Hubbard

The greater the effort,
the greater the glory. ~ Pierre Corneille

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there. ~ Haile Gebrselassie

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. ~ Robert Frost

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sometimes we just have to suck it up and do what we have to do, until we are able to do what we want to do. ~ Mark W. Boyer

The more things you do, the more you can do. ~ Lucille Ball

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It's not about what you have to do, its what you need to do. ~ Habeeb Akande

In a thousand years, nobody will remember the naysayers and meek worshippers, but your work will write your name upon the very fabric of time in golden engravings. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

It's 90% mental. The other half is physical ~ Yogi Berra

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors. ~ Ken Robinson

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off. ~ Mary Lou Retton

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Leaders don't complain about what's not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it. ~ Simon Sinek

The only way to earn what you're really worth is to get paid based on your results. ~ T. Harv Eker

You're blessed if you have the strength to work. ~ Mahalia Jackson

That's what we called him. Our prince. And we were princesses. God's princesses. His daughters, who deserved nothing less than God's best. And while we were determining God's best, the message was clear: don't settle for anything less. Ladies, we've gone nuts. Of course God wants us to marry a great guy. Of course he wants us to find someone who loves us, treats us right, and maybe even makes our heart beat a little faster. He certainly wants someone whose calling we can join, a man with whom we can serve God with effectiveness and joy. But while I'm all for understanding our worth in God's eyes, remember that we're not perfect prima donnas who deserve the best and nothing less. On the contrary, we're sinners who will someday marry other sinners. God has a plan for our future marriages, and it's not to fulfill all our dreams or give us a storybook ending. His goal is to work out his purposes and glorify himself. ~ Lisa Anderson

If you work hard everyday and bust your tail on every play, eventually people will notice and word will get around. ~ Tommy John

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish. ~ Brad Henry

Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale"

Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days.
Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires
with the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals.
Call old friends, and listen for echoes of distant voices.
Organize your calendar. Dream of the beach. Look each way
for the dim glow of light. Work on your reports. Review
each of your life's ten million choices. Endure moments
of self-loathing. Find the evidence of those before you.
Destroy it. Try to be very quiet, and listen for the sound
of gears and moving water. Listen for the sound of your heart.
Be thankful that you are here, swallowed with all hope,
where you can rest and wait. Be nostalgic. Think of all
the things you did and could have done. Remember
treading water in the center of the still night sea, your toes
pointing again and again down, down into the black depths. ~ Dan Albergotti

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring. ~ Zoe Saldana

While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on his own, is already solving the problem. A man who is trying to live as a neighbor to his neighbors will have a lively and practical understanding of the work of peace and brotherhood, and let there be no mistake about it - he is doing that work ...
A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.
(pg.87, "Think Little") ~ Wendell Berry

You could wish for brighter moonlit skies
But from a fair distance, they all look pretty much like mere streetlights. ~ Sanhita Baruah

We've got a great team of editors, that's true. And we work hard so that when we do the couple of takes that they're good takes hopefully. Not always, that's for sure; there are lots of bad ones, but we try to work hard. Clint Eastwood doesn't more than one or two takes in his films. And he makes some good films. ~ Emily Deschanel

What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway. ~ James Comey

He paid me to discover ways to express the unnameable; to get to the bottom of an utterance; to find words for the things for which there were no words yet, thereby bringing them into existence, committing them to paper, projecting them into the future. The work was part drudgery, part deity. ~ Ellen Miller

Enslavement is still enslavement, no matter how soft the chains. ~ Kelsey Quick

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it. ~ Christopher Moore

What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day ... It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

I didn't just magically end up becoming the person that I am today. I also dealt with different kinds of pain and hardships, and I chose to fight and win over these battles instead of letting it defeat me and become just a mere victim. ~ Kcat Yarza

You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good. ~ Jon Favreau

Your relationship with Me is meant to be vibrant and challenging, as I invade more and more areas of your life. Do not fear change, for I am making you a new creation, with old things passing away and new things continually on the horizon. When you cling to old ways and sameness, you resist My work within you. I want you to embrace all that I am doing in your life, finding your security in Me alone. ~ Sarah Young

Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it. ~ Frederick Lenz

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work. ~ Josh Lucas

I love that I can work from home and take my kids to school every day. ~ Simon Toyne

I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how you build a palace. You build a palace one block at a time and then you'll have what you want. That's how it goes. ~ B.J. The Chicago Kid

The greatest life is to live for your dreams. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life's easy when you're a robot. ~ Alasdair Gray

What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else. ~ Cheryl Mendelson

Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods. ~ Eric Maskin

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work. ~ Martha Reeves

The work is done, but how no one can see;
'Tis this that makes the power not cease to be. ~ Lao-Tzu

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will ... There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength. ~ Meister Eckhart

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. ~ Woodrow Wilson

I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation ... or maybe comfort. Maybe I was safe to you, and you needed to feel that. I know how scared you get of the unknown. To you ... I must be kind of a security blanket. Do you see now, how that doesn't work for me? I don't want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too ... scary. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart ... Even if it means breaking my own. ~ S.C. Stephens

Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president. ~ James Surowiecki

But she beat that voice down and stomped on it with imaginary work boots. Those steel-toed monsters were good for something. ~ Victoria Dahl

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~ Francis Bacon

You need something to create anything ; you need someone to get somewhere . ~ Osunsakin Adewale

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere. ~ Vince Lombardi

Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work ... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance. ~ Tertullian

HARD WORK
The secret behind the success of every artist is practice. The secret behind the failure of any artist is laziness. ~ Sirshree

If someone ever tells you that you are not beautiful, tell them that you feel pity seeing their colorless mind and heart. ~ Jyoti Patel

Had He not emerged from the tomb all our hopes, all our salvation would be lying dead with Him unto this day. But as we see Him issue from the grave we see ourselves issue with Him in newness of life. Now we know that His shoulders were strong enough to bear the burden that was laid upon them, and that He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him. The resurrection of Christ is thus the indispensable evidence of His completed work, His accomplished redemption. ~ B. B. Warfield

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere. ~ Kim Novak

Everyone is hustling to get there, and get their two cents in, but are their ideas really well respected? Is there stance in society respected? Respect comes out of living the right way, but it does not always work out that way. People with money, power, they tend to get respect but the the real concept of respect is from people who are truthful and sincere about what is going on. ~ Richard Cotovsky

These garments that God provides - such as kindness, humility, and gentleness - allow us to meet hostility and criticism with patience, forgiveness, and love. They give us staying power in the storms of life. When we face adverse conditions at home, school, or work, the 'clothing' God tells us to wear protects us and enables us to make a positive difference... Dressing according to God's guidelines doesn't change the weather - it equips the wearer... Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life. ~ David McCasland

I will go home and much of what I will have to say will seem strange to the people of my village... But I will teach and work and things will happen, slowly and swiftly. At times it will seem that nothing changes at all... and then again... the sudden dramatic events which make history leap into the future. And then quiet again. Retrogression even. Guns, murder, revolution. And I even will have moments when I wonder if the quiet was not better than all that death and hatred. But I will look about my village at the illiteracy and disease and ignorance and will not wonder long. And perhaps... perhaps I will be a great man... I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course... and perhaps for it I will be butchered in my bed some night by the servants of empire...

...perhaps the things I believe now for my country will be wrong and outmoded, and I will not understand and do terrible things to have things my way or merely to keep my power. Don't you see that there will be young men and women, not British soldiers then, but my own black countrymen... to step out of the shadows some evening and slit my then useless throat? Don't you see they have always been there... that they always will be. And that such a thing as my own death will be an advance? They who might kill me even... actually replenish me! ~ Lorraine Hansberry

BAD PEOPLE
A man told me once that all the bad people
Were needed. Maybe not all, but your fingernails
You need; they are really claws, and we know
Claws. The sharks - what about them?
They make other fish swim faster. The hard-faced men
In black coats who chase you for hours
In dreams - that's the only way to get you
To the shore. Sometimes those hard women
Who abandon you get you to say, "You."
A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn't move on its own. Sometimes it takes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
Then they blow across three or four States.
This man told me that things work together.
Bad handwriting sometimes leads to new ideas;
And a careless god - who refuses to let people
Eat from the Tree of Knowledge - can lead
To books, and eventually to us. We write
Poems with lies in them, but they help a little. ~ Robert Bly

I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does. ~ Candida Hofer

While it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman. ~ Iris Origo

I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved. ~ Larry Hagman