Motivational quotes for work - Page 5

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

You can achieve anything you put your mind and hard work to.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

We are pragmatists. We don't stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let's try it, and if it does work, fine, let's continue it. If it doesn't work, toss it out, try another one. We are not enamored with any ideology.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

We work to become, not to acquire.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.