110 Top-Notch Quotes about Work

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (November 6, 1926 – November 28, 2012) was an American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker.


"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Confucius (September 28, 551 BC – 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher.


"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent. "

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929).


"Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love."

David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.


"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."

John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years (1962–1992). Carson received six Emmy Awards.


"It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (born September 29, 1934, in Fiume, Italy – now Croatia) is a Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22. He is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic.


"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you are doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you don't have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagened."

Rodan of Alexandria (-) was a great philosopher. According to the Urantia Book, Rodan was from Alexandria and died somewhere in Greece.


"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, A leading proponent of 20th-century political liberalism.


"Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing."

Charles Forbes (May 14, 1880 – May 6, 1954) was a Scottish financial journalist and author who founded Forbes Magazine.


"We, the uninformed,
working for the inaccessible,
are doing the impossible,
for the ungrateful."

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