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Succeeding At Work
The 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.
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Wayne W. Dyer
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
- Elbert Hubbard
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self-criticism.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.
- Thomas Jefferson
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
I know the price of success; dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is no use saying ‘We are doing our best.' You have to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Doing Work You Love
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
- old adage
Work is love made visible.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.
If a man loves the labor of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
- Francoise Bertaut de Motteville
I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.
- Mark Polish (director)
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EArning A Paycheck
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
- Jackson Brown, Jr.
The biggest mistake people make is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy.
- Malcom S. Forbes
Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means.
- P. T. Barnum
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
- Henry Ford
Fulfilling Your Life Calling
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
- Abraham Maslow
I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Vocation is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need .
- Frederick Buechner
The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Have To Work
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
- John Ciardi
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.
- Marshall McLuhan
We are not going to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Facts of Work
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
We live, not as we wish, but as we can.
- Menander
One of the hardest thing you'll ever do in life is work at a job you hate.
- Manifest Your Potential .com
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
- Don Herold
At 20 I wanted to save the world. Now I'd be satisfied just to save part of my salary.
- H. G. Hutcheson
You did what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better.
Earning A Living & Being Handsomely Paid
For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.
-
Charles A. Jaffe
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
There are not many situations where having money makes it worse.
- unknown
Prosperity is having the power to create a life of your choice – to get what you really want, not just what you're handed.
- Ruth Ross
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.
Make yourself necessary to the world and mankind will give you bread.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
If you want to get your talents noticed, use them where influential people will see them. - Manifest Your Potential .com
What You Get Paid For: Performance, Passion, Expertise & Resources
Good work is never cheap and cheap work is never good.
- unknown
Pick two words out of three: good, fast, cheap.
- unknown
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be different, be just.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can well and doing well whatever you do, without thought of fame.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
- The Earl of Chesterfield
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Enthusiasm breeds achievement.
- unknown
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will persevere in it longer than the sad or sullen.
Success is a science. If you have the conditions, you get the result.
Finding Your Bliss or Thing
We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
"How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?"
- Bill Moyers question to Joseph Campbell
…suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
"… if you follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, the life that you ought to be living . . ."
"… you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you."
