Quotes for Your Career JourneyThese quotes are for your enjoyment. May they provide you with food for thought, a little inspiration, motivation and give you joy. In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. Peter McWilliams Quotes The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973) It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do. Cory Doctorow You always pass failure on the way to success. Eighty percent of success is showing up. The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men 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. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. 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. Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand. There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money. 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. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well Proverb quotes
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