Important works first....
Great Work
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.Let the work begin.- The Princess Diaries (movie quote)
Work You Are Great At
Here are some great quotes about the first aspect of great work .... work you excel at or can become great at.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.If it falls on your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and Earth will have to pause and say,"Here lived a great sweeper, who swept his job well".- Martin Luther King, Jr.Ty Cobb called him the greatest left fielder of all time. He said his glove was the place where triples go to die.- Field of Dreams (movie quote)
You can read more inspiring quotes about finding your gifts and talents.
Work You Are Passionate About
These inspiring quotes speak to the second aspect of great work .... work you are passionate about.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.- George SandFlaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideasEnthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment- Norman Vincent PealeThe biggest mistake people make is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy.Men are failures not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.If you love your work it will be easy for you to do, if not, it will only be a burden.Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
Work That Matters
If you are curious about the third aspect ... finding work you care deeply about .. here are a few famous quotations.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work . . . Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.I know the price of success; dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Work You Find Meaningful
The fourth aspect, finding work you find meaningful, is just a click away.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.It's true, maybe a plastic container factory isn't much. But at the end of a good day'swork, I can't explain the joy you feel at being just a little tired,. We aren't rich, but I can guarantee that the people of St. Marie-la-Kauderne have regained their pride ... I think you can say we regained our happiness.- Seducing Dr. Lewis (movie quote)
Work That Calls To You
Following a life calling isn't always easy, but you can turn it into a well paying career. Here are a few inspiring quotes about work that calls to you.
If a man loves the labor of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.Vocation is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need.I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Work That Inspires You
Finding work that inspires you is easier when you know what to look for ... and keep your eye on the prize.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.Inspiration makes the impossible possible.- unknownTo succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.- Tony DorsettThe highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.- Theodore Roosevelt
Work You Are Well Paid To Do
The seventh aspect of great work, finding work you are well paid to do, is key to funding your dreams. Here are a few inspiring quotes.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.
Work You Love
The eighth aspect of great work, finding work you love, is a key to finding happiness on the job. Here are a few inspiring quotes.
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.- popular sayingReal success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.Work is love made visible.What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.- Mark Polish (director)You know, somebody said to me a long time ago ... the key to success in life is to find something that you love to do. And to do it very well. And I tell that to the kids all the time.- Mad, Hot Ballroom (movie quote)He loved his work ... That's all he did. He loved solving problems, he loved the answers. But he thought the answers were the answers for everything. Wrong. All science, no philosophy.- Real Genius (movie quote)
Challenges To Overcome
We all face challenges when we look for a great job ... but sometimes the obstacles start much earlier than we we pick up the help wanted pages.
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
