200 Work Quotes
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With Labor Day just behind us, are you thinking, “Yikes! No more holidays till Thanksgiving; and that’s almost three months away! Don’t know how I’m going to make it that long. I wonder if I have any sick days left?”
Or, are you glad to get back to work, eager to do your best, and excited to discover what you can from your renewed efforts after a great 3-day weekend to recharge your batteries?
Is there something intrinsic to labor that makes it valuable for its own sake? Does hard work ennoble the soul? Or, is that just a crock of hooey? It depends on the type of work you do. If you love your work and feel it makes a difference in your life and the lives of others in a positive and meaningful way, then that’s a big “yes!”
However, if you are at the opposite end, working in a soul-zapping, mind-numbing environment full of dangerously petty people and endlessly changing procedures for every little thing you are expected to do, your work is not really making you a better person. Nor is it helping the world too much, either. The only people truly benefiting from your misery are the owners. And, they’d be just as happy if someone else did your job. After all, there’s always plenty where you came from.
If you are not yet convinced that there are such jobs or careers that can deeply enrich your life and the lives of others, take a look at some of the quotes below.
200 QUOTES ABOUT WORK
1. People are still willing to do an honest day’s work. The trouble is they want a week’s pay for it.
- Joey Adams
2. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
- Lord Acton
3. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
- James Allen
4. Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
5. Nothing will work unless you do.
- Maya Angelou
6. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
7. The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.
- Michael Armstrong
8. The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
- Thomas Aquinas
9. Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- Saint Augustine
10. There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.
- Jane Austen
11. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach
12. Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
- Colleen C. Barrett
13. When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
- Colleen C. Barrett
14. It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
- Charles Baudelaire
15. You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.
- Warren Beatty
16. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
17. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham Bell
18. Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
19. When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.
- Betty Bender
20. You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But, when people don’t take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy; and, that affects the morale of everyone around them.
- Carisa Bianchi
21. I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
- Larry Bird
22. There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone—many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
- Richard Nelson Bolles
23. I’ve always worked very, very hard; and, the harder I worked, the luckier I got.
- Alan Bond
24. Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
- David Bly
25. We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
- Gerald Brenan
26. A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
- Emily Bronte
27. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
28. I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain.
- Rita Mae Brown
29. Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
- Rita Mae Brown
30. Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
31. I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
- Pearl S. Buck
32. The secret of joy in work is contained in one word—excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- Pearl S. Buck
33. To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
- Pearl S. Buck
34. Your work is to discover your world; and, then, with all your heart, give yourself to it.
- Buddha
35. 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
36. What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
- Julia Cameron
37. Without work, all life goes rotten. But, when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- Albert Camus
38. A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Albert Camus
39. Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.
- Orson Scott Card
40. Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- Thomas Carlyle
41. Every noble work is at first impossible.
- Thomas Carlyle
42. Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And, if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
- Johnny Carson
43. Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.
- Marc Chagall
44. I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
- Walter Chrysler
45. The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.
- Jim Collins
46. I don’t like work—no man does; but, I like what is in the work, the chance to find yourself.
- Joseph Conrad
47. I wish it grew on trees; but, it takes hard work to make money.
- Jim Cramer
48. It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But, there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed it is often the most enjoyable part of life.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
49. It is better to wear out than to rust out.
- Richard Cumberland
50. I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
- Leonardo da Vinci
51. God sells us all things at the price of labor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
52. It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
- Bette Davis
53. Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- Bette Davis
54. To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
- Bette Davis
55. Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.
- Le Duc de Levis
56. To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey
57. By the work, one knows the workmen.
- Jean de la Fontaine
58. Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
- Henry Ford
59. The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
- Francoise de Motteville
60. It’s important to know that words don’t move mountains. Work, exacting work, moves mountains.
- Danilo Dolci
61. Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
62. People might not get all they work for in this world; but, they must certainly work for all they get.
- Frederick Douglass
63. I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?
- Arthur Conan Doyle
64. Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker
65. So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker
66. Executives owe it to the organization, and to their fellow workers, not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
- Peter Drucker
67. Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
- Wayne Dyer
68. Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.
- Marian Wright Edelman
69. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
70. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas Edison
71. 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 Edison
72. As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
- Thomas Edison
73. If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein
74. People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
75. Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
76. If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for ‘em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself; that’s where it is.
- George Eliot
77. Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
78. The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
79. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
80. Gardening requires lots of water—most of it in the form of perspiration.
- Lou Erickson
81. My work is a game, a very serious game.
- M. C. Escher
82. 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 Ewing
83. It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts; it’s the work you put in the hours.
- Sam Ewing
84. A positive attitude may not solve every problem; but, it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.
- Grant Fairley
85. Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
- Martin H. Fischer
86. Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
- Henry Ford
87. There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
88. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
- Henry Ford
89. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
- Henry Ford
90. Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France
91. Laziness may appear attractive; but, work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
92. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow’s. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
93. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost
94. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost
95. 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
96. Men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live.
- Margaret Fuller
97. Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
- Galen
98. My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
- Indira Gandhi
99. The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.
- Mahatma Gandhi
100. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
101. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
- John W. Gardner
102. I’m serious when I do my work. I’m not serious when I’m home with my kids.
- Bill Gates
103. Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It’s meant that I’m a little more balanced. In my twenties, I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I’m always making sure I’ve got a good balance of how I spend my time.
- Bill Gates
104. Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.
- Uri Geller
105. Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train: Are you going sixty miles an hour, or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?
- J. Paul Getty
106. There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
- J. Paul Getty
107. 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.
- Kahlil Gibran
108. The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society—more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
109. There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm, and team play.
- William B. Given, Jr.
110. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- Harry Golden
111. The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
112. I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
- Stephen Jay Gould
113. You’ve got to love what you do to really make things happen.
- Philip Green
114. Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.
- George Halas
115. Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
116. We work to become, not to acquire.
- Elbert Hubbard
117. The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better.
- Elbert Hubbard
118. Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
- Elbert Hubbard
119. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
120. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
- Elbert Hubbard
121. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo
122. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
123. Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
- Thomas Jefferson
124. A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
- Thomas Jefferson
125. I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Jerome K. Jerome
126. I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And, we’re always trying to do better.
- Steve Jobs
127. The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
- Steve Jobs
128. Long shots do come in; and, hard work, dedication, and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.
- John H. Johnson
129. I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams. I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can’t dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres, and dedicates themselves to excellence.
- John H. Johnson
130. When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
- Henry J. Kaiser
131. What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown—watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
- Jackie Kennedy
132. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
133. Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.
- Charles Kingsley
134. If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
- Lane Kirklan
135. If you want to kill time, try working it to death.
- Sam Levonson
136. Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
137. Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
- Vince Lombardi
138. The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
139. Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
- Harvey MacKay
140. If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
- Orison Swett Marden
141. Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
- Henri Matisse
142. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.
- Charles Horace Mayo
143. Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
- David McCullough
144. Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.
- David O. McKay
145. There is nothing namable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay.
- Herman Melville
146. For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
147. People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
- Ogden Nash
148. People forget how fast you did a job—but they remember how well you did it.
- Howard Newton
149. Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.
- Jack Nichols
150. A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.
- Geoffrey Norman
151. If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don’t you think there’s a good chance that your boss’s boss knows what’s going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.
- Suze Orman
152. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
- William Osler
153. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
- C. Northcote Parkinson
154. Plan your work; work your plan. Lack of system produces that “I’m swamped” feeling.
- Norman Vincent Peale
155. Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
156. The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field—and keep on doing it.
- Wilfred A. Peterson
157. Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he [or she] should like to do anyhow, even if he [or she] did not need the money.
- William Lyon Phelps
158. It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
- Pablo Picasso
159. When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
- Pablo Picasso
160. When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
- Antonio Porchia
161. Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
162. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
163. It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly. Who errs and comes up short again and again. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at best, knows achievement. And, who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
164. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
165. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, “Certainly, I can!” Then get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
166. Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man.
- Jean Jacques Rosseau
167. 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
168. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
169. The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
- Jonas Salk
170. Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
- George Sand
171. Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
- David Sarnoff
172. When I was a young man, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
- George Bernard Shaw
173. The harder I work, the more I live.
- George Bernard Shaw
174. Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!
- George Bernard Shaw
175. It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless.
- Charles Simmons
176. Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
- Adam Smith
177. Without labor nothing prospers.
- Sophocles
178. When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait that long.
- Lya Sorano
179. Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work; and, ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
- Meryl Streep
180. Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
- Barbra Streisand
181. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
182. The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold J. Tonybee
183. The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
184. You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
- Brian Tracy
185. When people see the beautiful marble in Trump Tower, they usually have no idea what I went through personally to achieve the end result. No one cares about the blood, sweat, and tears that art or beauty require. It’s the end result that matters.
- Donald Trump
186. Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is. You should view your work that way, too.
- Donald Trump
187. Early to bed, early to rise; work like hell, and advertise.
- Ted Turner
188. What work I have done, I have done because it has been play. If it had been work, I shouldn’t have done it. Who was it who said, “Blessed is the man who has found his work?” Whoever it was, he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work—not somebody else’s work. The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man’s work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world, we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat, under the weary load of toil that they bear, never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.
- Mark Twain
189. One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Vincent van Gogh
190. Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
- Voltaire
191. Making money is art, and working is art; and, good business is the best art.
- Andy Warhol
192. I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.
- Andy Warhol
193. I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of “work,” because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do.
- Andy Warhol
194. Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
- Booker T. Washington
195. I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde
196. The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
197. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
- Oscar Wilde
198. Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
199. For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Wilke
200. Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
- Stevie Wonder
CONCLUSION
So, is work a good thing or a bad thing? Something to embrace with genuine gusto, or something to avoid when you can and merely endure when you can’t? Again, it all depends on whether you’ve found the work you love. If you don’t know what yours is yet, read the “All About You!” series to find out. Then, start the greatest, most important, and most memorable love affair of your life—with Your True Calling!
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September 2nd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
201. Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
- Ernie Banks
202. When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one—and, you reach that deep well where passion lives—nothing is impossible.
- Nancy Coey
203. And, although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.
- Benjamin Cohen
204. When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
205. The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.
- Martin H. Fischer
206. Always, you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But, I say to you that, when you work, you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And, in keeping yourself with labour, you are, in truth, loving life. And, to love life through labor is to be intimate with life’s inner most secret.
- Kahlil Gibran
207. Anyone can like their job … To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
- Zahi Hawass
208. Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Lee Holz
209. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
- Abraham Maslow
210. The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your career!
- Earl Nightingale
211. What we do is a measure of who we are. If we imagine our work as labor, we become laborers. If we imagine our work as art, we become artists.
- Jeffrey Patnaude
212. I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
- Anita Roddick
213. Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity. It tells you who you are. It’s gotten so abstract. People don’t work for the sake of working. They’re working for a car, a new house, or a vacation. It’s not the work itself that’s important to them. There’s such a joy in doing work well.
- Kay Stepkin
214. I think a lot of times it’s not money that’s the primary motivation factor; it’s the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
- Martin Yan
215. A lot of people don’t enjoy their job, they may even hate it; but, I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.
- Martin Yan