You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
- Oprah Winfrey

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
- Sister Mary Lauretta

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
- Orison Swett Marden

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
- William Patten

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
- Earl Nightingale

Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
- David Sarnoff

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
- Thomas A. Edison

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
- Harding Lawrence

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
- Brian Tracy

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.
- Johnny Carson

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.
- Uri Geller

To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.
- Mark Sullivan

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do, are better than the best days of those - who don't.
- Jim Rohn

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
- Bobby Unser

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
- Sam Ewing

One principal reason why people are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
- Nathaniel Emmons