Working Life Quotes:

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

- Chiwetel Ejiofor

source: "Chiwetel Ejiofor on ‘Triple 9′ and Why He Wanted to be Part of ‘Doctor Strange’". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 25, 2016.

topic: Term, Private Life, Working Life

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Last Day, Innovation Inspiration

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

topic: Motivational, Success, Encouragement, Individual Success, Individual Talent

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiring Business

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Daily Work, True Believer

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

- Jimmy Johnson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Basketball, Softball Team, Inspirational Hard Work

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Moving, Inspiration, Inspiring Change, Design Work

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

source: "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Make Me Feel Better, Makin Money

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.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Job Opportunities, Inspiring Business

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

- George Halas

topic: Work, Daily Work, Inspirational Hard Work, Work Done, Inspirational Office

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Success, Work, Stress, Important Work, Inspirational Stress Relief

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Motivational, Work, Daily Work, Inspirational Hard Work, Work Done

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

- Colin Powell

topic: Dream, Determination, Military, Pursue Your Dreams, Dreamy

Believe that things will work out... follow your intuition and curiosity... trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path... You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... 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... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Heart, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

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.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Moving On, Time To Move On, Cycle Of Life

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Careers, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Father, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspirational Passion

Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

- Evan Williams

topic: Sleep, Exercise, Long, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Careers, Balance, Politics, Professional Career, Work Life Balance

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

- Ozwald Boateng

topic: Dream, Hard Work, Reality, Pursue Your Dreams, Dreams Can Come True

I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.

- Tim Waterstone

source: Tim Waterstone (2013). “Swimming Against the Stream: Creating Your Business and Making Your Life”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

topic: Leadership, Believe, People, Working Life

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

- Giles Andreae

topic: Years, Enough, More Money, Working Life

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

- Andrew Lincoln

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Pretending, Pretending To Be Someone Else, Working Life

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

- Emma Thompson

topic: Two, People, Awful, Working Life

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

- Herbert Hoover

source: Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.162, Stanford University Press

topic: Government, People, Soul, Daily Work, Working Life

We must make working life more human.

- Goran Persson

topic: Humans, Working Life

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Atheist, People, Priorities, Working Life

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

- Laurence Fishburne

topic: Mentor, Working Life

If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Art, Creative, Looks, Business Life, Working Life

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

- Al Franken

topic: Dad, School, Careers, Working Life

Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

- Tom Hodgkinson

topic: Thinking, Goal, Hey, Working Life, Beating Yourself

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Lucky, Theater, Working Life

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Men, Ties, Careful, Inverted, Working Life

The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Revenge, Party, Home, Irritants, Working Life

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

- David Nicholls

topic: Speech, Moments, Henry V, Working Life

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

- Stephen Fry

source: Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.72, The Overlook Press

topic: Careers, Heaven, Training, Working Life

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

- Iain Banks

topic: Cutting, Trying, Stuff, Working Life

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Lonely, Art, Past, Sissy, Dilettantes

A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm

- John Naughton

topic: Loyalty, Powerful, Intelligent, Working Life, Discrepancies Between

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?

- James Joseph Sylvester

source: James Joseph Sylvester, H. F. Baker (2012). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester:”, p.419, Cambridge University Press

topic: Music, May, Reason, Working Life

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: 1911 'The Glory of the Garden'.

topic: Weed, Men, Garden, Working Life, Better Man