1. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.-Seth Godin
2. A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.-Alistair Cook
3. 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.-Steve Jobs
4. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.-Dr. Seuss
5. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.-Carlos Castaneda
6. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.-Thomas Edison
7. I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.-Thomas Jefferson
8. Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don’t despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.-Sanjo Jendayi
9. All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.-Calvin Coolidge
10. Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.-Patrick Suskind
11. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.-Harry Golden
12. You were hired because you met expectations, you will be promoted if you can exceed them.-Saji Ijiyemi
13. Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.-Helen Hanson
14. Do the things you like to be happier, stronger & more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by dedication.-Rossana Condoleo
15. 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
16. Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.-Rumi
17. I think the foremost quality “ there’s no success without it “ is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there’s no success if you don’t do well what you’re working at.-Malcolm Forbes
18. You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.-Maya Angelou
19. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.-Kahlil Gibran
20. Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.-Alan W. Watts
22. If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.-Jim Henson
23. Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.-Madeleine L’Engle
24. There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.-Alain De Botton
25. Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.-Alasdair Gray
26. Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.-Marian Wright Edelman
27. There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.-Mary Balogh
28. There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.-Alan Cohen
29. To be successful, one has to be one of three bees – the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.-Suzy Kassem