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Quotes About Vocation

"A vocation that is not mine, no matter how externally valued, does violence to the self..."
Parker J. Palmer, Author, Educator, and Activist

"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence."
Honoré de Balzac, Novelist and Playwright

Quotes About Loving Your Work

"You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. 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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."
Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple Computer, NeXT, and Pixar Animation Studios, Commencement Speech Delivered At Stanford University, 2005

"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Confucius, Social Philosopher and Teacher

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
John Ruskin, Art Critic and Social Activist

Quotes About Work Happiness

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
John Ruskin, Art Critic and Social Activist

"To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness."
John Dewey, Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist

Quotes About The Importance of Work

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
Sigmund Freud, Neurologist and Founder of Psychoanalysis

"Love and work, work and love...that's all there is."
Sigmund Freud, Neurologist and Founder of Psychoanalysis

Quotes About Work and Luck

“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”
Garrison Keillor, Writer and Broadcaster

"The harder I work the luckier I get."
Samuel Goldwyn, Film Producer

Quotes About Work and Persistence

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan, Retired American NBA Basketball Player (considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time)

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."
Henry Wheeler Shaw writing as Josh Billings, Humorist

Funny Quotes About Work

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"
Edgar Bergen, Academy Award winning Actor and Ventriloquist

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen, Writer, Director, and Actor

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