Work Quotes

A truly successful life is one filled with friends so it helps if people like being around you. If you suspect they don’t, have a think about how strongly you exhibit ‘likeable’ qualities such as listening well, being trustworthy, kind, generous, compassionate, fun, positive and unselfish. The good news is that you can learn such qualities even if they don’t come naturally to you.

~ Nigel Cumberland

Success is a process, not an event.

~ Richie Norton

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.

~ Richie Norton

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.

~ Richard Branson

Phronesis is a beautiful virtue, practise it and you shall reap the rewards…

~ Shana Pascoa

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Leaders let go of what they can't control. It's a matter of knowing the power of the muscles and bones in your neck so you can go for what it can carry

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don't cheat, they don't envy. Leaders don't hate, they don't curse. Leadership is a positive service to mankind.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders do not play a what if game. They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders walk their talks. They don’t give theories that do not work. They have clarity into their dreams and insight into their directions!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Those who serve others will be served.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish you much more grace for all your works.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must serve each other in love and in humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We have to work and serve humanity while we have the grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

~ Émile Zola

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.The job is not the work.

~ Seth Godin

A man who works with his hands is a laborer, a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman, but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

~ Louis Nizer

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.

~ Roman Payne

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

~ Madeleine L'engle

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

~ Steven Pressfield

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

~ Julia Cameron

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

~ Michael Gungor

We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world

~ Steven Pressfield

Writing is hard. Writing that is good, writing that is powerful enough to evoke a change or an authentic emotion or even just an idea in another human being is about as mysterious as an alchemical recipe, but there are a few known ingredients. Craft? Yes, absolutely. Devotion? A load - yes! Humility? Not vital, I suppose, but all my favorites include at least a dash. Before those can be added to the cauldron though, you must have a base of Honesty. Honesty is difficult to find in public spaces these days (and getting harder every goddamn day) but if you're quiet, and patient, you can usually find some hidden in your room somewhere. (It helps to turn off the lights, for some reason.) Problem is, Honesty is invariably bound to Vulnerability and the only thing that cuts the bitterness of Vulnerability is Courage. And Courage? Well. Courage is the hardest thing of all.

~ Kelly Sue Deconnick

He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenomena in the bosom of boundless simplicity, a propensity—proscribed and diametrically opposed to his mission in life and for that very reason seductive—a propensity for the unarticulated, the immoderate, the eternal, for nothingness. To repose in perfection is the desire of all those who strive for excellence, and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

~ Thomas Mann

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it? she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude.

~ Criss Jami

There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

~ Andrew Loomis

When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art...and you're the artist and no one else paints your life for you.

~ Sotero M Lopez Ii

A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby.

~ Amit Kalantri

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

~ Benedict Of Nursia

But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up.

~ Søren Kierkegaard