Top 100 Successful Work Quotes
#1. Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
Hans Selye
#2. Every successful work of God must have opposition.
Billy Graham
#3. People that I know, the vast majority, who are successful work really, really hard. Sure, there's some people that either get lucky or inherited it or don't have to work hard for some reason, but the vast majority who are successful work really, really hard.
Will Packer
#4. A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
Alain De Botton
#5. The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
Niklaus Wirth
#6. The secret of getting
successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell - in
the clearness of the instructions they receive.
Robert Baden-Powell
#7. I would like to thank Wolfgang Schreiber for his successful work with Bentley and Bugatti and the consistent further development of the two brands.
Martin Winterkorn
#8. I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#9. In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.
R. Keith Sawyer
#10. The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
Donald Knuth
#11. Every successful work of art is a collaboration between the known and the unknown.
Marty Rubin
#12. If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.
Alan Thicke
#13. A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.
Theodor Adorno
#14. I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
Bertrand Russell
#15. Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
Joseph Barbera
#16. The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
Eric Ries
#17. Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
Virat Kohli
#18. You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.
Nick Woodman
#19. When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
Ryan Tedder
#20. I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
Tom Petty
#21. After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.
Brandi Chastain
#23. I want children, but I don't necessarily want to be married because I think marriage is very difficult. To have a successful marriage, you have to work hard and regard it as a job.
Monica Cruz
#25. If you want to become successful employer tomorrow, work hard on learning and practicing few simple disciplines and positive thoughts as an employee today.
Ashish Patel
#26. Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art ...
Robert Henri
#27. Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
Lou Holtz
#28. I have known successful businessmen who, upon retirement, lost all zest for life. Their work had given their lives meaning. Often it was the only thing that had given their lives meaning and, without it, they spent day after day sitting at home, depressed, with nothing to do.
Viktor E. Frankl
#29. We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.
Brian Chesky
#30. To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.
Vince Lombardi
#31. Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.
Eraldo Banovac
#32. Overall, compassionate people tended to be healthier, happier, more popular, and more successful at work. Most
Dan Harris
#33. I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.
Ben Affleck
#34. I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
Steve Coogan
#36. The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
Billy Beane
#37. I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.
Biz Stone
#38. If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work.
Robert Hughes
#39. My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#40. If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it's because he works harder than you.
Hugh Jackman
#41. The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.
M.J. Rose
#42. No successful business is run through thought. It requires people who work.
Stephen Richards
#43. No matter how successful or skilled you are, you will inevitably fail at many things in your work.
Todd Henry
#44. I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.
Leonard Orr
#45. People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as 'parasites' fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.
Jason Read
#46. The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.
Jean Rosenthal
#47. I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton ... Together we transcended our previous work and made something better together than we could have done apart.
Cornelia Parker
#48. The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.
Jack Canfield
#49. The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.
Napoleon Hill
#50. Persistent work always brings a person successful results
Sunday Adelaja
#51. The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.
Paul McCartney
#52. Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.
S. N. Goenka
#53. No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.
John C. Maxwell
#54. The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.
Steven Pressfield
#55. However you see the world, realize that you can be successful if you do the work. Being positive and doing nothing will generate nothing. Being negative and fighting everything that cross your path can still lead to success.
James Woosley
#56. I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.
Steve Ballmer
#57. The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a body of work that got recognized and became an archetype.
Robert Longo
#58. The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.
Walter Russell
#59. Do not take the advantage of all the little luxuries a house of a stranger may offer you.
Auliq Ice
#60. The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.
Richard G. Scott
#61. We all naturally want to become successful ... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.
Apolo Ohno
#62. My daddy. . . . . used to say, 'Honey, find something you love to do and then figure out a way to get paid for it.' He understood that where your true passion is, there your joy is also. And a joyful life is a truly successful life. Perhaps not by the world's standards, but whose life is it anyway?
Kathie Lee Gifford
#63. The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
Harold Prince
#64. We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.
Frank Sonnenberg
#65. John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.
William J Doherty
#66. I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
Eddie Murphy
#67. I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.
Michael Landon
#68. It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.
Hyman Rickover
#69. Say an A&R person wants me to do this type of song because they feel it is going to work on the radio, I guarantee you that unless the song is real, there is nothing wrong with having success and I want to be successful. That is why I am, but I do it my own way.
Shane Bunting
#70. If you learned to live in mediocrity, you have never learned to live.
if you still need introduction, you still need to work hard.
If you want a short cut to success, try your WILL POWER.
If you want a successful life, then take chances and make changes
Harsh Malik
#71. When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.
Roy Bennett
#72. I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
Aaron Ruell
#73. He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful. It really depends on the young man's desire, commitment, work habits, and how important it is to him when he returns.
LaVell Edwards
#74. All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.
Mary Baker Eddy
#75. Someone could have an outstanding comprehension of a bodybuilding diet and a background in nutrition but not have the work ethic and desire to put it into practice. That person won't be as successful as the person who understands some basics and puts them into action regularly.
Robert Cheeke
#76. This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.
Will Carling
#77. In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
Robert Mueller
#78. You can't expect to be who God wanted you to be if you don't improve on upon your talents, abilities, and actions to the peak of the potentials you carry.
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see".
Dick Fosbury
#80. Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.
Tony Robbins
#81. PATH TO SUCCESS: DREAM. PLAN. DO. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. ACHIEVE! IT'S A MESSY JOURNEY.
Tom Giaquinto
#82. A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.
Joey Lawrence
#83. Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete. In
Brian Tracy
#84. I have enjoyed the success my work has brought me. Some might say I haven't really struggled to be successful. I think it is my perspective that is utopian. My state of mind is positive and peaceful. And I dare to dream.
Vidya Balan
#85. Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you.
John Schneider
#86. I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.
Lily Cole
#87. A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.
Will Rogers
#88. I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.
Shawn Mendes
#89. Do you have a passion for what you do and do you love what you do? If you don't, then it can be drudgery, it can be hard, it can be work. But when you find something that you enjoy a lot, then you're more willing to sacrifice a lot of things in order to be successful as a teacher.
Tubby Smith
#90. Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.
H. David Burton
#91. I think it's a great time to put out quality work, and it will speak for itself. You don't have to work so hard at being successful at it, because it is something that people want, so when they want it and it is good, then they're going to get it and continue to give it to other people.
Anthony Hamilton
#92. I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
Macklemore
#93. Don't mistake any of this for altruism ... Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.
Larry Ellison
#94. Success is determined by how best you can utilize your time
Sunday Adelaja
#95. The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.
Cornel West
#96. Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.
Abdul Kalam
#97. I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.
Mark Wahlberg
#98. Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.
Tom Hodgkinson
#99. I believe that the more we understand about how our hemispheres work together to create our perception of reality, then the more successful we will be in understanding the natural gifts of our own brains, as well as more effectively help people recover from neurological trauma.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#100. No man can be successful, unless he first loves his work.
David Sarnoff
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