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Inspirational Quotes from People You May Know

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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
--Arnold Toynbee, English economic historian, 1852-1883

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: it is not to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
--William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, 1860-1925

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
--Betty Bender. President of the Library Administration & Management Association from 1986-1989

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
--Pete Seeger, American folk singer

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
--Bill Cosby

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
--William B. Given, Jr., President, American Brake Shoe Co.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects it loves.
--Carl G. Jung, founder of analytical psychology, 1875-1961

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
--Elbert Hubbard, writer, 1856-1915

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

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
--Pearl S. Buck

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
--Thomas A. Edison

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
--Henry J. Kaiser, Father of American shipbuilding, 1882-1967

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
--John Ruskin, art critic and author, 1819-1900

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
--James M. Barrie, author and creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
--David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize winning author

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
--Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
--William Lyon Phelps, American author, Yale & Harvard grad, 1865-1943

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
--Warren Beatty

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
--Pearl S. Buck, Pulitzer Prize winning author, 1892-1973

Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.
--from The Lazy Person's Guide to Success

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
-- Rita Mae Brown, American writer

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.
-- Daniel Burnham, American architect & urban planner, 1846-1912

You never stop earning when you do what you love.
-- Asha Tyson, motivational speaker

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
-- Francoise Rene Auguste Chateaubriand, French author

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
-- Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. 
-- Mother Teresa

Talents are common, everyone has them - but rare is the courage to follow our talents where they lead.  
-- Anon

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
-- Mark Twain

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do, are better than the best days of those who don't.
-- E. James Rohn, motivational speaker 

The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.
-- Laurence G. Boldt, writer

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
-- Joseph Campbell, American mythology professor

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

My job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision maker. if the job description were, what do you do… it's decision maker.
-- George Bushism

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
-- Walter Chrysler, founder of Chrysler Corp., 1875-1940

In business, I loved cars. I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
-- Lee Iacocca, CEO of Chrysler

I'm lucky. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.
-- John Madden, football coach

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.
-- Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel

Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
-- Ross Perot, American businessman & one-time presidential candidate

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it… because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?
-- Colonel Sanders

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
-- Oprah Winfrey

My first six years in the business were hopeless. There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this? I'll never make it. It's just not going to happen. I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive.
-- George Lucas

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
-- Robert Frost, American poet. 1874-1963

Whatever career you may choose for yourself – doctor, lawyer, teacher – let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it.  Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights.  Make it a central part of your life.  It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher.  It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can.  It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man.   Make a career of humanity.  Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.  You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr., America Baptist Minister and Civil Rights leader, 1929-1968

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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

A musician must make his music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to ultimately be at peace with himself.
-- Abraham Maslow, American psychologist, 1908-1970

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically…Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
-- Margaret Young, Vaudeville singer, 1900-1969

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
-- Teddy Roosevelt

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
-- Arnold Toynbee, English economic historian, 1852-1883

Why change the world? To me that's what life is about. If you don't do that, you might as well hibernate and sleep. If everyone thinks what you do is "normal" . . . it probably is. Why do that? Do something else!
-- Dean Kamen, Inventor of "Ginger," a personal transportation breakthrough

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
-- Buddha

To be nobody-but-yourself---in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
-- e.e. cummings

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
-- Erica Jong, American author

If you go to heaven without being naturally talented for it, you will not enjoy it there.
-- George Bernard Shaw

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
-- Katherine Hepburn

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
-- Pablo Picasso

Different people have different duties assigned to them by nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
-- Anonymous

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
-- Helen Keller

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
-- Fanny Brice. American comedienne & actress, 1891-1951

The self is not something that one finds. It's something one creates.
-- Thomas Szasz, professor of psychology

A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: "As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
-- Joseph Campbell, a truly gifted American mythology professor, 1904-1987

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
-- Joseph Campbell

Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant s.o.b. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.
-- Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary scientist

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: He's free.
-- Rumi, poet born 1207 in Balkh (what is now Afghanistan)

How strange is the lot of us mortals?  Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
-- Albert Einstein, 1931

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. -- Michael Evans

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.
-- Gelett Burgess, artist and MIT grad, 1866-1951

“But" is a fence over which few leap.
-- German proverb

To play it safe is not to play.
-- Robert Altman, film director, 1925-2006

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
-- Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian born American author, 1925-1998

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
-- Jim Hightower, author

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, be we knew it had to be done.
-- Betty Friedan (pioneer of the Women's Movement)

Work and Play are words used to describe the same thing under different circumstances.  
-- Mark Twain

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
-- Greer Garson, Academy Award Winning Actress, 1904-1996

To love what you do and feel that it matters--how could anything be more fun?
-- Katharine Graham, Publisher of the Washington Post, 1917-2001

You've got to jump off cliffs, all the time, and build your wings on the way down.
-- Ray Bradbury

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one: being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
-- George Bernard Shaw

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
-- Albert Einstein

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death.
-- Betty Bender

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