Motivational Work Life Quotes & Sayings

Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There's no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should've done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn't work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG — Pablo

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity. — Paul Arden

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for. — Habeeb Akande

Overworking leads to exhaustion. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When in doubt, ask yourself this: What would a really happy person do? Then do that. — Alexander Kjerulf

It is a great joy to work for what you want. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If it has to be done, you have to do it yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work. — Alexander Kjerulf

If you are not working towards something, your life will end with nothing. — Habeeb Akande

In today's globalized world nothing is sure. Routines are falling; stereotypes are breaking. Life has never been as piquant as it is now. So go out of your way; leave your cocoon. Do that crazy thing and be happy you did it. — Ogwo David Emenike

You know you've found your calling, when you would rather do it and fail, than not do it. — Alexander Kjerulf

If you can endure, if you can persevere, if you can work and not grow weary, if you're both obsessed and talented, well, you might have a shot. — Auliq Ice

Never give up in life. Learn to be humble, resilient, honest, wise and submissive and you'll be able to make a change better than anyone else. — Auliq Ice

The pain in your muscles and the sweat in your brow after doing a work the hard and honest way make you feel proud of yourself! — Avijeet Das

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains. — Marvin J. Ashton

So let me just say this. There are ways. You already know that because, in your life, there have been High Kindness periods and Low Kindness periods, and you know what inclined you toward the former and away from the latter. Education is good; immersing ourselves in a work of art: good; prayer is good; meditation's good; a frank talk with a dear friend; establishing ourselves in some kind of spiritual tradition - recognizing that there have been countless really smart people before us who have asked these same questions and left behind answers for us. It would be strange and self-defeating to fail to seek out these wise voices from the past
as self-defeating as it would be to attempt to rediscover the principles of physics from scratch or invent a new method of brain surgery without having learned the ones that already exist. — George Saunders

The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't — Todd Blackledge

The only way I can experience my life as meaningless is to work as hard as I possibly can to tell myself it has no meaning. At a deeper level of reality, my life can't help but have meaning, because everything is continually unfolding, and I am connected into that unfolding in ways that I can't even imagine. — Joseph Jaworski

God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. — Sri Chinmoy

Get up and move at work today! Don't spend the whole day on your butt. Take a walk. Get some exercise. Play a game. Move! — Alexander Kjerulf

Persistence and passion will make you invincible. — Christian Baloga

The entire universe has been harmoniously created and everything in it work in harmony.The sun has its rising and settling time. Seasonal changes have their own time for appearing and departing.Fruit bearing trees have their own time and timing. The child crawls and then walks.We take a step to make a journey. A simple deviation then from the normal is a simple deviation to the abnormal. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Its not workload that kills you, its worry that kills you. — Vijay Dhameliya

When your hobby becomes your work, life automatically transforms into a never ending holiday — Anamika Mishra

If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want. — Kevin Ngo

The world's a stage and I'm on it. Better make a good impression out there! — Shannon Mayhew

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to ... to work for and hope for. — Maxwell Maltz

May we recognise the uniqueness of every individual and seek to complement each other. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not be satisfied by just getting what you need, strive and work harder to get what you want. — Auliq Ice

Don't ever let them tell you that you're too stupid to do something. I'm not saying it's going to be easy for you, the way it was for you mom. Maybe you're going to have to work for it a little harder than other people, which I know isn't fair. But that doesn't mean you should just give up. Because if you do that, then where will you be? — Meg Cabot

Use your special gifts to create work for yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked - as I am surprisingly often - why I bother to get up in the mornings. — Richard Dawkins

But sometimes you simply can't make yourself feel like acting. And in those situations, motivational advice risks making things worse, by surreptitiously strengthening your belief that you need to feel motivated before you act. By encouraging an attachment to a particular emotional state, it actually inserts an additional hurdle between you and your goal. The subtext is that if you can't make yourself feel excited and pleased about getting down to work, then you can't get down to work. — Oliver Burkeman

Blessed are the ones who find work worth their love and love worth their life — Srivyal Vuyyuri

Studies consistently show that happy companies are way more productive, creative and service-oriented than unhappy ones. Therefore, the happy companies will beat the pants off the unhappy ones in the market place. The future of business is happy! It's inevitable. — Alexander Kjerulf

There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication. — Max De Pree

In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen. — Gina Greenlee

Let us work joyfully while we have the strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Anyone can make a positive impact on the lives of other people. All we have to do is live our ordinary lives extraordinarily well. Be happy and positive. Do what you love and love your work. Reach out not only by using your hands, but with your heart as well. Life is lived wonderfully that way. — Kcat Yarza

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going. — Chris Kyle

Seriously: Do you want to spend your working life simply being satisfied? When you look back on 50 years spent in business, do you want to be able to say, "Well, I was satisfied"?? No! Make happiness your goal. As in, "Let's make this a workplace where people are happy to work." As in, "I've been working for 50 years now, and it absolutely rocks! To me work is challenging, stimulating and just plain fun. — Alexander Kjerulf

For forgiveness to work in your life, it has to be genuine. It has to come from the heart. When it does, it is so powerful that bitterness fades away and you are able to see the "gifts" in what has happened. I also think forgiveness is a kind of humility." -Winsome Campbell-Green — Winsome Campbell-Green

Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young. — Lindsey Rietzsch

You can't be happy at work every day. No matter how much you love your job, there are still going to be bad days. And that's cool - it's always OK to have a bad day at work. — Alexander Kjerulf

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes
everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor! — Audre Lorde

Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful. — Alexander Kjerulf

Work is just a part of our Life, not vice versa. So Live life full time, work work, part time. — Vikrmn

You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism. — Amit Kalantri

You make a difference for every single person you come into contact with at work. Is that difference for the better or worse? — Alexander Kjerulf

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life. — Brian Tracy

Learn to love mornings! Everyday is a fresh start. You've a lot to look forward to. Your whole life is in front of you. You can get up everyday and decide what you're going to accomplish, what goals you're going to work towards. Think about that. Every morning is an opportunity to change what you aren't happy with. — Adriana Locke

Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you. — Saransh Garg

If someone is Jealous of you, That's a good sign! Keep up the good work. — Mohith Agadi

Want to have better and more effective meetings? Get rid of the tables in your meeting room. It's weird but it works. — Alexander Kjerulf

It's 90% mental. The other half is physical — Yogi Berra

You will spend more of your waking hours at work than anything else. If that time doesn't make you happy it's a huge waste of life. — Alexander Kjerulf

Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?
People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future).
Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are. — Paul Arden

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work. — Seth Godin

Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work. — Swami Vivekananda

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You ... Be Free ... Share. — Steve Maraboli

Let your work speak,
Let your work scream,
Let your work live,
Forever. — Akash Lakhotia

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. — Charles R. Schwab

Anything in life is possible when you work hard to achieve it. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Everyone you meet won't wish you success that's why you work for it and give your life your best. — Kia Marie Dawkins

All work and no play will make you sad and grey! — Habeeb Akande

I think the suicide rate is so high among writers because we force ourselves to stand still, take an outsider's perspective, and realise how quickly a life passes by, and how futile we are. The exhilarating upside is that at a moment's glance all your worries fade away, and you can work on making the most of it. — Kevin Focke

You were not born to make only a living but to live life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay. — Will Smith

How can I forget there's just one life & so much to do.
Let me choose the best things to do and start to do. — Chetan M. Kumbhar

I don't mind failing because that means I'm trying. But giving up, now that's something that I'm just not willing to do. I will continue to try and try again. I will keep my peace, stay focused, and know that my time will come. My positive attitude will not depart me. I will hold it close and keep on striving, knowing that what's meant for me, will be. Nothing and nobody can stop it! My dedication and hard work won't fail me, but most importantly, I won't fail myself. I'm a winner and I'm a fighter! I don't allow challenges to stop me. — Stephanie Lahart

The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don't commit to being happy at work, you won't be. You won't make the choices that make you happy. You won't take the actions needed to get there. You won't change the things that need to change. — Alexander Kjerulf

Don't work harder, work happier. — Alexander Kjerulf

Life is gifted to us not just to work, but to work in order to realize life's purpose. Work is not an end in itself, but a means to realize the end purpose of life.-RVM — R.v.m.

Sometimes we just have to suck it up and do what we have to do, until we are able to do what we want to do. — Mark W. Boyer

A recipe for success. Think, do. Repeat as needed. — Rob Liano

Time spent for temporary happiness like movie or outing or weekend on a beach is all synthetic; with shelf life of a day or two. Work for your bigger dreams that should last for whole life. Then movie and beach would seem more interesting, realising that you have done something. — Vikrmn

I've had several work addiction cycles in my life. Those were situations when important tasks were assigned to me. I took into account that people should remember me based on what I did rather than based on what I failed to do. — Eraldo Banovac

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you. — Steve Maraboli

This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger. — Swami Vivekananda

Your work is your identity, your life is your message. — Srivyal Vuyyuri

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

If you slave away every day at a job you hate and come home drained and frustrated, what is that teaching your kids? — Alexander Kjerulf

Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done. — Grenville Kleiser

Don't allow the demands of work load; make you lose touch with life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold. — Guy Finley

The living dead do things without putting life into it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To get to know yourself better, examine what you really want from life and become true to yourself, Be clear and honest and work hard to make it. — Auliq Ice

See, happiness at work is an emotion. It comes from inside of you, and like all other emotions it is difficult to define, but inescapable once it's present. Or not present. Can you define love? Poets have tried for thousands of years and aren't getting much closer. But when you're feeling love, you're acutely aware of it, even though you have no formal definition. — Alexander Kjerulf

Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. — Steve Pavlina

Nothing remarkable or impressive comes to be overnight, and all those so-called "overnight success" stories misrepresent the truth. It is only the manifestation of that success that appeared overnight, but its essence was built up over time. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Doing what you love is a sacred life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. — Harry S. Truman

Remember: Research shows that emotions are contagious. How will you infect others at work today? — Alexander Kjerulf