Inspirational Quotes - all the time for all of us

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison

Always continue to 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.
Oprah Winfrey

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
Bertrand Russell

No rules for success will work if you don't.
Unknown

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry Kaiser

The best kind of pride is that which compels a person to do his or her best even when no one is looking.
Unknown

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

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

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin

Warning to all Personnel: Firings will continue until morale improves.
Anonymous

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

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewig

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

If you don't have the time to do it right, where do you think you're going to find the time to do it over.
Anonymous

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player

He who would have fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
Anonymous

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed. They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

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

The work will teach you how to do it.
Estonian Proverb

Anyone who says something is impossible is always being interrupted by someone doing it.
Anonymous

You can't build a reputation on what you are 'going' to do.
Henry Ford

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What pioneer ever had a chart and a lighthouse to steer by?Catherine Drinker Bowen
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.
Anonymous

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
Howard W Newton

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like there's nobody watching.
Anonymous

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.
Frank McGee

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler

One plays for the sake of work and works for the sake of leisure.
Aristotle

The work praises the man.
Irish proverb

Work your way up or rust your way out.
H Holton