Need Some Inspiring & Great Quotes about Your Life's Work?
... About Your Life's Work
Here are a few great quotes about finding your life's work ... and succeeding at it.
Life's Work
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
- popular adage
It's true, maybe a plastic container factory isn't much. But at the end of a good da's work, I can't explain the joy you feel at being just a little tired,. We aren't rich, but I can guarantee that the people of St. Marie-la-Kauderne have regained their pride ... I think you can say we regained our happiness.
- Seducing Dr. Lewis (movie quote)
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
- Francoise de Motteville
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
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.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
- Jackson Brown, Jr.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work . . . Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
- John Ruskin
Choosing Your Life's Work
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.
- Tadao Ando (architect)
I know at a certain point you do choose it because you don't choose something else. It just happens. People made me dance. They said "hey, you know how to dance". And slowly I got more and more into it. The more I found it, the more I liked it.
- Louise Lecavalier
When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.
- Dale Chihuly
Identify Career Path
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
- George Halas
Identify Your Life's Work Trade. Profession, Job Title
If a man loves the labor of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.
- Leonardo da vinci
Identify Industries
Let the work begin.
- The Princess Diaries (movie)
Ty Cobb called him the greatest left fielder of all time. He says his glove was the place where triples go to die.
- Field of Dreams (movie quote)
Identify Companies
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.
- Chinese Proverb
Identify Dream Job
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford
Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.
- Mark Victor Hansen
Become A Dream Candidate
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
- Jerry Garcia
Sometimes it is not good enough to do your best; you have to do what is required.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Prepare For Life's Work
Before anything else, getting ready is the secret to success.
- Henry Ford
A prudent person foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.
- Book of Proverbs
Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don't always know what for.
- Jan Houtema
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Get Hired For Your Dream Job
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
Succeed At Your Dream Job
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
If a man loves the labor of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- Pearl Buck
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
- Oprah Winfrey
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Elliot
Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
- Samuel Smiles
Build A Dream Business
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities, which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become a possibility and you think, ‘Well, I'll have a go, too.'
- Margaret Thatcher
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