Quotes on Motivational Work

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

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.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

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

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.