These working life quotes will inspire you. Working life, the part of a person’s life when they do a job or are at work.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging working life quotes, working life sayings, and working life proverbs.
Best Working Life Quotes
- “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
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” ~ Colin Powell
- “Work hard at work worth doing.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work” ~ Steve Jobs
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“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” ~ Stephen Leacock
- “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” ~ Stephen King
- “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” ~ Jimmy Johnson
- “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 , Hard working life quotes
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
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“Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “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
- “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.
- “Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.” ~ Evan Williams
- “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.” ~ Ozwald Boateng
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“Don’t settle, as with all matters of the heart you’ll know when you find it” ~ Steve Jobs
- “The harder I work the more I live.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “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.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.” ~ Denis Waitley
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“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “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
- “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” ~ Colin Powell
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein , Balance working life quotes
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“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ~ Confucius
- “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” ~ George Halas
- “People will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“An artist’s working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “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
- “No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives.” ~ Walt Disney
- “In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.” ~ Tony Visconti
- “One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they’d seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.” ~ Ben Mendelsohn
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“My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.” ~ Johann Lamont
- “Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.” ~ Pranab Mukherjee
- “Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- “Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis’ own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.” ~ Idries Shah
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“As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin’s working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.” ~ Garson Kanin
- “To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I’ve done for most of my working life. It’s work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.” ~ Tilda Swinton
- “I’m still spending my working life trying to mine people’s souls and now they’re complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.” ~ Jason Isaacs
- “Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.” ~ Lord Byron
- “I think the issue of women’s choice is essential for a woman being able to have their lives – if they cannot control their own bodies by choosing if or when to have a child, then they cannot control their working life or anything around them.” ~ Tavis Smiley
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“Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.” ~ Polly Toynbee
- “In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.” ~ Christian Schwochow
- “If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals…We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.” ~ Erich Fromm
- “I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that’s very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That’s my other world.” ~ Saoirse Ronan
- “When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself – because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.” ~ Cindy Gallop
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“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
- “In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, “Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, “By studying the masters, not the pupils.”” ~ Eric Temple Bell
- “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
- “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
- “May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.” ~ James Joseph Sylvester
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“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
- “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 - “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
- “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
- “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
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“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
- “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
- “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
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“I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.” ~ Andrew Lincoln
- “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 - “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
