Quotes About Work - VocationVillage

Quotes About Work - VocationVillage Here are some of my favorite quotes about work:Quotes About VocationWhere talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. Aristotle PhilosopherVocation comes from the Latin vocare, to call, and means the work a man is called to by God. There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice of God rather than of Society, say, or the Super-ego, or Self-interest Neither the hair shirt nor the soft berth will do. The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meet. Frederick Buechner TheologianAn unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a mans entire existence. Honoré de Balzac Novelist and PlaywrightVocations which we wanted to pursue, but didnt, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. Honoré de Balzac Novelist and PlaywrightA vocation that is not mine, no matter how externally valued, does violence to the self Parker J. Palmer Author, Educator, and ActivistDiscover vocation and creation. And joy will come like clairvoyance, where blindness was before. Rumi Sufi PoetIt is common to think of a vocation as a career that you somehow feel you were meant to do. I prefer a different definition, one closer to the historical origins of the concept: a vocation is a career that not only gives you fulfillment â€" meaning, flow, freedom â€" but that also has a definitive goal or a clear purpose to strive for attached to it, which drives your life and motivates you to get up in the morning. Roman Krznaric Lifestyle Philosopher, Author, Speaker“The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. Mark Twain Author and HumoristQuotes About Loving Your WorkThe minute you begin to do what you really want to do, its really a different kind of life. Buckminster Fuller Engineer, Author, Designer, Inventor, and FuturistChoose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius Social Philosopher and TeacherWhen love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin Art Critic and Social ActivistWork without love is slavery. Mother Teresa Catholic Nun, Humanitarian Youve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. 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 havent found it yet, keep looking. Dont settle. As with all matters of the heart, youll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Dont settle. Steve Jobs Founder of Apple Computer, NeXT, and Pixar Animation Studios, Commencement Speech Delivered At Stanford University, 2005Quotes About Work HappinessTo find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness. John Dewey Educator, Philosopher, PsychologistIn 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 Social ActivistBefore I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. Parker J. Palmer Author, Educator, and ActivistQuotes About Work and Luck“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.” Garrison Keillor Writer and BroadcasterThe harder I work the luckier I get. Samuel Goldwyn Film ProducerQuotes About The Importance of WorkLove and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud Neurologist and Founder of PsychoanalysisLove and work, work and lovethats all there is. Sigmund Freud Neurologist and Founder of PsychoanalysisQuotes About Work and PersistenceIt’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein, Father of Modern PhysicsNothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge 30th President of the United StatesBe like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Henry Wheeler Shaw writing as Josh Billings HumoristLet me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. Louis Pasteur Scientist and Inventor of the Process of PasteurizationIve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times, Ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan Retired American NBA Basketball Player (considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time)When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis Journalist, Social ActivistQuotes About Mistakes At Work“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein Father of Modern PhysicsThe greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert Hubbard Author, PhilosopherOnly those who are asleep make no mistakes. Ingvar Kamprad Founder of IKEAYou have to make mistakes to find out who you arent. You take the action, and the insight follows. You dont think your way into becoming yourself. Anne Lamott AuthorQuotes About Work and RiskThe biggest risk you can take is to take no risk. Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of FacebookQuotes About Failure“Id rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.” George Burns Comedian“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Robert F. Kennedy PoliticianQuotes About CriticsWhen people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you, remember theyre telling you their story, not yours. Cynthia Occelli Life CoachIt is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United StatesQuotes About Teaching and LearningTell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Printer, Philosopher, Founding Father of the United StatesQuotes About Connection/CommunityThe best things happen when people are running into each other and sharing ideas. Its all about maximizing collisions and accelerating serendity. Tony Hsieh Founder of ZapposThe reason entrepreneurs hang out with each other is because its inspiring to watch people work on problem after problem. Penelope Trunk Author, Entrepreneur, Career CoachFunny Quotes About WorkHard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? Edgar Bergen Academy Award Winning Actor and VentriloquistI dont want to achieve immortality through my workI want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen Writer, Director, and Actor