Some days work feels inspiring. Other days it feels like a never-ending chain of meetings, emails, deadlines, and coffee refills. Whether you’re building a business, leading a team, looking for your next opportunity, or simply trying to make it through the week, these quotes offer a little perspective, motivation, and wisdom from thinkers, leaders, athletes, rabbis, and dreamers who have spent time thinking about what makes work meaningful.
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
-Steve Jobs
“Your talent determines what you can do.
Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do.
Your attitude determines how well you do it.”
-Lou Holtz
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
-George Eliot
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
-Michael Jordan
“If you see what needs to be repaired and how to repair it, then you have found a piece of the world that God has left for you to complete. But if you only see what is wrong and what is ugly in the world, then it is you yourself that needs repair.”
-Menachem Mendel Schneerson
“If you are not happy with what you have, you will not be happy with what you get.”
-Rabbi Noah Weinberg