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Famous and Great Quotes About ...
The World of Work
This list highlights quotes about our world of work hot topics: having to work, the facts of work, being handsomely paid, what we get paid for, and finding our bliss or "our thing". More than a list of quotes with the keywords "work", "paycheck" or "bliss" , this collection of sayings provide inspiration and simple truths in the form of famous quotes and great soundbytes from across the centuries. The names of the authors are linked to their web site or a page in an online encyclopedia so you can learn more about them.
If you need to get inspired, take a look at these sayings. And if we missed a great quote, feel free to send it to us via e-mail.
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. - Buckminister Fuller
Facts of Work
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. - William Adams
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. - Laurence Sterne
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. - Maya Angelou
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. - Mark Twain
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. - William Shakespeare
Make yourself necessary to the world and mankind will give you bread. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver
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. - Warren G. Bennis
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be different, be just. - Anita Roddick
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can well and doing well whatever you do, without thought of fame. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. - The Earl of Chesterfield
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser
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. - Thomas Carlyle
Success is a science. If you have the conditions, you get the result. - Oscar Wilde
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. - Joseph Campbell
"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." - Joseph Campbell
I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. - Joseph Campbell
"… 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 . . ." - Joseph Campbell
"… you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you." - Joseph Campbell
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