Famous Quotes

"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."

Orison Swett Marden on Work

More quotes about Work

• "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

  Confucius on Work

• "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

  Thomas A. Edison on Work

• "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

  Robert Frost on Work

• "Nothing will work unless you do."

  Maya Angelou on Work

More quotes by Orison Swett Marden

• "Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world."

• "No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation."

• "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone."

• "There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."

• "Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."