Work QuotesWork quotes in this collection pay attention to finding the work you most love to do. Kahlil Gibran tells us work is love made visible. Are you doing work that fills you up or absolutely drains you?Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. Charles Allen Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. James Allen People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself. Teresa M. Amabile I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as making a ’life.’ Maya Angelou My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. Mustafa K. Ataturk Love and do what you like. Saint Augustine An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, however, suffer for it. Richard Bach The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach 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 now. P. T. Barnum You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. Lucinda Basset It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. Wendell Berry I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it. Ray Bradbury When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard. Helen Gurley Brown Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. Rita Mae Brown 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 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 To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. Pearl S. Buck Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. Buddha The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. Buddha Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it. Buddha The secret to happiness is something to do. John Burroughs To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. Samuel Butler Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. Eileen Caddy As adults we have quite a bit of work to do, and play seems to function as a protective mechanism against the costs of this work; a buffer against stress, a support during life transitions, a means of forming bonds and alliances, a jump start for creativity and problem-solving. Christine Caldwell 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 I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the result of invisible hands coming all the time—namely that if you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you. Joseph Campbell I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen. Joseph Campbell Blessed is he who has found his work. Thomas Carlyle Every noble work is at first impossible. Thomas Carlyle If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. Dale Carnegie 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 Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach out children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children. Pablo Casals We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves. Pema Chodron To every person there comes in their lifetime that special moment when you are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to you and your talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds you unprepared or unqualified for work which could have been your finest hour. Winston Churchill If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. John Cleese When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible. Nancy Coey We only do well the things we like doing. Colette Choose a job you love and you will never work another day in your life. Confucius All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Calvin Coolidge Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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 At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry. Charles Darwin To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days. Thomas Dekker What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. Eugène Delacroix Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I have never worked a day in my life. Dr. Leila Denmark (100+, America’s oldest practicing physician) A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. Annie Dillard Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined. Peter F. Drucker Creativity is work that goes some place: it is sustained effort toward an ideal. Michael Drury The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead. Charles Eames Creativity is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." Thomas Alva Edison The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.... Thomas Alva Edison The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. John Erskine What makes your heart flutter? Do only that. There is not enough time for anything else. Richard P. Feynman There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford Work has to include our deepest values and passions and feelings and commitments, or it's not work, it's just a job. Matthew Fox The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert Frost It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible. Thomas Robert Gaines Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. Mahatma Gandhi You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential. Steve Garvey Work and play are the same. When you’re following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. Shakti Gawain When you work, you fulfill a part of earth's fondest dream assigned to you when that dream is born. Kahlil Gibran 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 No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. Samuel Goldwyn To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything else be more fun? Katharine Graham Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never broken, and dance like no one is watching. Aurora Greenway No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance. Mia Hamm When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky. Armand Hammer You are brilliant and the earth is hiring. Paul Hawken The true profession of man is to find his way to himself. Hermann Hesse It is not your work to make anything happen. It’s your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it happen. In your joy, you create something, and then you maintain your vibrational harmony with it and the Universe must find a way to bring it about. That’s the promise of Law of Attraction. Abraham-Hicks Within the seed of your desire is everything necessary for it to blossom to fulfillment. And Law of Attraction is the engine that does the work. Your work is just to give it a fertile growing place in order to expand. Abraham-Hicks We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play. Conrad Hyers If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done. Thomas Jefferson I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Steve Jobs Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know. Tama J. Kieves Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do. Dennis Kimbro There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it. Dennis Kimbro Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. Stephen King Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. Madeleine L’Engle Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up. Anne Lamott You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started. Anne Lamott There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis L'Amour Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. Vince Lombardi A creative block is the wall we erect to ward off the anxiety we suppose we'll experince if we sit down to work. Eric Maisel If, because of enxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours. Eric Maisel Work for your own soul’s sake. Edgar Lee Masters Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. Mignon McLaughlin If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all. Michelangelo Like every writer, I am asked where my work orginates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more. Arthur Miller The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. Francoise de Motteville Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. Stephen Nachmanovitch The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. Stephen Nachmanovitch There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. Mirabel Osler Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching. Satchel Paige When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities. Norman Vincent Peale Find a need and fill it. Ruth Stafford Peale Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process. Tom Peters It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. Pablo Picasso The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. Francesca Reigler For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world. Anita Roddick It isn’t enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it, one must work for it. Eleanor Roosevelt Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul. Al Sacharov Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourishes you. SARK The best work is not what is most difficult for you: it is what you do best. Jean-Paul Sartre If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings. Susan Polis Schultz 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 The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible. Barbara Sher I dream for a living. Steven Spielberg When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all that I can permit myself to contemplate. John Steinbeck When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. W. Clement Stone Just as appitite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. Igor Stravinsky 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 The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression. Brian Sutton-Smith God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing. Rabindranath Tagore It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and everyone who works is scrubbing some part. Henry David Thoreau All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. Mark Twain 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 One must work and dare if one really wants to live. Vincent van Gogh Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. Vincent van Gogh What we do flows from who we are. Paul Vitale We must cultivate our garden. Voltaire In order to be a success in business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That is WORK. I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work? Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work - ENTHUSIASM. That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself, and the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a thorough KNOWLEDGE of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was lazy. Thomas J. Watson We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting laundry. E. B. White Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life. Oscar Wilde Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And never do it for the money. Don’t go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy. Marianne Williamson In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. Marianne Williamson Nothing but what you volunteer has the essence of life, the springs of pleasure in it. These are the things you do because you want to do them, the things your spirit has chosen for its satisfaction. The more you are stimulated to such action the more clearly does it appear to you that you are a sovereign spirit, put into the world, not to wear a harness, but to work eagerly without it. Woodrow Wilson I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. Oprah Winfrey Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus. Oprah Winfrey Let passion drive your profession. Oprah Winfrey The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. Oprah Winfrey Return from Work Quotes, Job Quotations and Sayings about What We Do to the Quotes Listed by Subject page
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