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"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile."
-- Earl Nightingale

"Remember every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."
-- Anonymous

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."
-- Elbert Hubbard (Inspirational Writer)

"The choice of a work community defines our lives and identities more powerfully than our choice of a suburb or a senator or even a house or a vacation destination. Yet many people look on a job only as a necessary evil, the unavoidable means of achieving a desired standard of living. They don’t expect principled management, just a generous paycheck. They don’t expect to get meaning and spiritual sustenance from a job, just to spend by far the greatest part of their waking hours working at it."
-- Frederick F. Reichheld: The Loyalty Effect

"Make your work matter; matter to your work."
-- Joe Tye, America's Values Coach

"Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement."
-- Paul J. Fleyer

"Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale—who writes always to the unknown friend."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American author, poet, and philosopher

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all."
-- Michelangelo, artist

"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible."
--- Thomas Robert Gaines

"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices."
-- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) US abolitionist and clergyman

The Masters in the art of living make little distinction between their work and their play, their labor and their leisure, their minds and their bodies, their information and their recreation, their love and their religion. They simply pursue their Vision of Excellence at whatever they do, leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing. To them, they are always doing both!"
-- James Mitchner

"No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing."
-- Samuel Goldwyn (the "G" in MGM)

"We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others."
-- Matthew Fox

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
-- Henry J. Kaiser

"Our work is the shoreline where our soul meets the outer world, a place where our love can be made visible."
-- Nick Williams

"Work is the very fire where we are baked to perfection, and like the master of the fire itself, we add the essential ingredient and fulfillment when we walk into the flames ourselves and fuel the transformation of ordinary, everyday forms into the exquisite and the rare."
-- David Whyte: The Heart Aroused

"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."
-- James Allen

"Work with others as much as possible. By working with others you tap into knowledge, strengths and new ways of looking at things. Focus on forming alliances that can work for you now and in the future. The more eyes, ears, and of course brains working on something, increase the odds of a favorable outcome. Being part of a team, lets each person bring their own particular strength to the issue, while having their individual 'needs development' area covered by someone else."
-- Edward W. Smith, Sixty Seconds To Success

"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. face the fact squarely and get out."
-- Michael Korda (Publisher)

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."
-- Malcolm Forbes

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty . . . the better I feel about the quality of my work."
-- Wayne Dyer, speaker and author

"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."
-- Jeremy Collier {1650-1726 British Clergyman}

The Three Rules of Work

• "Out of clutter, find Simplicity."
• "From discord, find Harmony."
• "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons."
-- Marsha Sinetar

"Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor; a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labor you are in truth loving life."
-- Kahlil Gibran

"And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever." --Holy Bible, Isaiah 32:17