Inspirational Sayings

"The Word of God is a Person. When you read it, do you see words or do you see Him?" Jacquelyn K. Heasley

"If I am under pressure and setting myself deadlines, I will stop for a fe minutes and think of just this one day and what I can do with it." from Al-Anon

"Some wish to hear the word of God, others wish to receive it." Proverb

"By yielding you may obtain victory." Ovid

"God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed." African Proverb

"What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be." Ellen Burstyn

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." Cherie Carter-Scott

"Love is not consolation, it is light." Simone Well

"There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself." C.S. Lewis

"God is a busy worker but loves to be helped." Proverb

"Do not be anxious about tomorrow; tomorrow willl look after itself." The Bible

"Beauty if God's handwriting." Charles Kingsley

"I care about truth not for truth's sake but for my own." Samuel Butler

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God." Abraham Lincoln

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it." Thomas Fuller

"A fair character is a fair fortune." Irish Saying

"A saint is one who makes goodness attractive." Laurence Housman

"A fool and his money are soon parted." English Saying

"The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it." Paul Scherber

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head." German Saying

"One of the sanets, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." Archibald Rutledge

"Courage faces fear and thereby masters it." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Those who can't dance say the music is no good." Jamaican Saying

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." Charles Dickens

"It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is." John K. Galbraith

"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple, and useful life." Booker T. Washington

"One falsehood spoils a thousand truths." African Saying

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile." Wilfred T. Grenfell

"If you want to be strong, know your weaknesses." German Saying

"God gaves us memories so that we might have roses in December." James M. Barrie

"Each man's life represents a road toward himself." Hermann Hesse

"God helps the poor: He protects them from expensive sins." Yiddish Saying

"By far the best proof is experience." Francis Bacon

"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame." Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them." Jean Toomer

"Before you go, think of your return." Bosnian Saying

"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals." Madame de Stael

"When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless." John Gardner

"The timid person loses many good things." Greek Saying

"Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with grateful hand." Horace

"If one throws sale at thee thou wilt receive no harm unless thou hast sore places." Lating Saying

"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable." Benjamin Franklin

"When you are losing, wear a winning face." French Saying

"Where is there difnity unless these is honesty." Marcus Cicero

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." Bertrand Russell

"From a little spark may burst a mighty flame." Latin Saying

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched." George J. Nathan

"Forgiving is not forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt." Mary McLeod Bethune

"Good wares make a quick market." Scottish Saying

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." Liberian Saying

Danish Proverbs

A good neighbour is better than a brother far off.
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Break one link and the whole chain falls apart.
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"It will come back," said the man, when he gave his sow pork.
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A slip of the foot may soon be recovered; but that of the tongue perhaps never.
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Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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Faults are thick where love is thin.
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A crowd is not company.
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It is best to be on the safe side.
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A fool only wins the first game.
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Keep your nose out of another's mess.
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A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.
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Better a little furniture than an empty house.
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It is easy to manage when fortune favors.
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A bold attempt is half success.
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You may force a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
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He that does not save pennies, will never have pounds.
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A penny in time is as good as a dollar.
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Kind words don't wear out the tongue.
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Act honestly, and answer boldly.
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Bad is never good until worse happens.
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A bird may be ever so small, it always seeks a nest of its own.
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Let deeds match words.
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Speaking silence is better than senseless speech.
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A good pilot is not known when the sea is calm and the weather fair.
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He that inquires much, learns much.
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A short rest is always good.
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That which must be, will be.
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A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.
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You may always find an opportunity in your sleeve, if you like.
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Life begins at forty.
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A man's character reaches town before his person.
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Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
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Another man's burden is always light.
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Better a little in peace and with right, than much with anxiety and strife.
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A bold man has luck in his train.
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Blame is the lazy man's wages.
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It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather.
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A child must creep until it learns to walk.
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Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune.
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
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Better ask twice than lose your way once.
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Where you cannot climb over, you must creep under.
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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
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Stop and smell the roses.
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A little stone may upset a large cart.
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An old man's sayings are seldom untrue.
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Better half a loaf than none at all.
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You can have too much of a good thing.
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Top 160 Positive Motivational Quotes About Work

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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Mark Twain

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. That's the mark of a true professional.

Samuel Johnson

Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.

Elbert Hubbard

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks.

Helen Keller

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Confucius

You can’t build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Ronnie Milsap

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Thomas Carlyle

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Dale Carnegie

Ideas are funny little things. They don't work unless you do.

Author Unknown

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Mahatma Gandhi

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

Sarah Bolton

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Katherine Graham

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there’s so little competition.

Richard Bach

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

David Sarnoff

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

Author Unknown

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Pablo Casals

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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

Elbert Hubbard

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vincent Lombardi

The common denominator for success is work.

John D. Rockefeller


The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.

Og Mandino

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Dr. Armand Hammer

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Henry Ford

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

Nan S. Russell

I don't know anything of luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Earl Nightingale

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.

George P. Burnham

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Leo Buscaglia

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Bob Anderson

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Kareem Abdul-Jabar

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

William John Bennett

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

Jim Rohn

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Thomas A. Edison

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.

Margaret Fuller

Joy comes from using your potential.

Will Schultz

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The work praises the man.

Charles L. Allen

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

C. Malesherbes

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

Kahlil Gibran

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Alfred A. Montapert

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

Catherine Pulsifer

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

Mahatma Gandhi

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson