Work Quotes
"While some people can't wait until their retirement, others feel cheated that they have to retire at all."

"Do the kind of job that if at the end of the day, your employer had to pay you what you were worth, they couldn't afford to keep you, rather than for you to owe them." Christine Brown

"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck." Kareem Abdul-Jabar

"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." Thomas Edison

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves." Dale Carnegie

"In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work." John Ruskin

"Many hands make light work." English Proverb

"Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about." Earl Nightingale

"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." Nan S. Russell



"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."Margaret Fuller

"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." P. T. Barnum

"One of the things that modern work has shown us time and time again is that a job seems only as good as the day is long. This simply means that one never knows when the fortunes of a company will change where no change was expected." Byron Pulsifer, The Finish

"You can work hard, you can have excellent educational credentials, but how many points would your attitude score?" Catherine Pulsifer, How Many Points Would You Score

"The work praises the man." Irish Proverb

"If you love what you do, then it is no longer work. The money you earn is secondary when you love your work. Money can never buy happiness, or peace of mind." Catherine Pulsifer, Love What You Do

"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." Brian Tracy

"A team based environment demands that you make responsible decisions; it requires you to take charge of your career. It requires you to develop excellent interpersonal skills because you have to interact at a much different level with your team members. No longer is it just you and your job!" Catherine Pulsifer, from Wings for Work

"Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about." Earl Nightingale

"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." Lucille Ball

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." James Matthew Barrie

"Give yourself something to work toward - constantly." Mary Kay Ash

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself." Abraham Maslow

"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money." Irish Blessing



"You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy." Byron and Catherine Pulsifer, More Common Traits of a Coach

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." Dale Carnegie

"You can show up for work every day…but showing up does not mean success in your work."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Wings for Work

"Good fortune does not happen because of luck. When someone gets a promotion, some people see this as luck. If they took a closer look, however, they would soon recognize how much harder successful people have worked, how much effort they've given, and how much dedication and commitment they've demonstrated in order to go that extra mile."Catherine Pulsifer, Luck, Do You Have It

"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!" Og Mandino

"You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed." Yanni

"Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe." Norman Vincent Peale

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

"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. Ray Kroc

"We all need a definition of ourselves which, while it may include our work or profession, reaches far beyond what we do to provide financial support for our lives." Daphne Rose Kingma

"For most people, work accounts for almost half of their waking hours. If you do not enjoy what you do, you will be unhappy for 50% of each and every day." Byron Pulsifer, Treasure Each Day

"The kind of passion I am talking about refers for to a true love of what you do to the point where you give it your all every minute of every workday." Byron Pulsifer, Can You Define Your Passion


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