If you want to find what's right for you, sometimes it's enough to figure out what's wrong.
Dale Dauten "A black-and-white hunt for vitality, niche in life" by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, September 2, 1999
Categories: meaning purpose life job career decisions

When you analyze admirable lives, you find they are made up of minor details, of dabbling, of experiments, of people who look back and see they were preparing themselves for careers they didn't even know they wanted. Along the way they experience so many flukes and coincidences that you can only conclude that those who experiment put themselves in the path of happenstance, watched over by the angels of coincidence.
Dale Dauten "Greatest success comes from following dream" by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, 5/15/2000
Categories: creativity imagination purpose fulfillment career success

In all labor there is profit.
King Solomon Proverbs 14:23, Holy Bible
Categories: work effort action success job vocation career

I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do..[But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems...but the essential thing is liking what you're doing.
Malcolm Forbes To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: work job career joy happiness challenge problem-solving entrepreneurship

The world is too much with us. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
William Wordsworth Simple Abundance
Categories: materialism money possessions focus balance work career

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, wither thou goest.
King Solomon Ecclesiastes 9:10
Categories: work effort life live career vocation living meaning

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: work effort vocation career meaning purpose fulfillment labor

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
Sallust The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: meaning purpose fulfillment service ministry volunteerism work career action

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs Light from Many Lamps
Categories: work vocation occupation meaning purpose fulfillment career creativity service

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: vocation work job effort vision mission goal success achievement career business service calling purpose meaning fulfillment action

Our dreams, goals, and ideas come from our values...If what we are doing does not come from what we care about most in life, it is meaningless.
G. Lynne Snead and Joyce Wycoff To Do Doing Done!
Categories: dreams goals ideas creativity creative expression meaning purpose fulfillment values ideas work career job

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
William B. Given, Jr. The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work job vocation ability skill talent character loyalty sincerity integrity honesty enthusiasm business team leadership teamwork diligent effort actions attitude optimism cooperation relationships enthusiastic morale career success