45 Happy at Work Quotes to Help You Love Your Career

There are various reasons for choosing jobs and career paths, and some include a passion for the job, a means of livelihood, or means to your preferred career. Whatever the reason, finding fulfillment and happiness in your daily activities can positively influence your overall lifestyle and improve your performance in the workplace. Learning happy at work quotes are helpful to finding happiness in your job. In this article, we share some quotes to help you stay happy at work.

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Finding happiness in your work can positively influence your general approach and satisfaction in your personal life and career. Read these happy at work quotes to help you focus and rediscover your passion for your job:

Gratitude

These quotes can help you appreciate your job or a new challenge and rediscover happiness in your workplace:

• "Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It's the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul." – Amy Collette

• "Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." - Wayne Dyer

• "Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities in blessings." - William Arthur Ward

• "When you are grateful, fear disappears, and abundance appears." - Tony Robbins

• "If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures. Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• "When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." – Willie Nelson

• "Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things." - Rhonda Byrne

• "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault

• "Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you." – Eileen Caddy

• "I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past—not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that is done, but they constantly look for how to do it better. When you lead with what's possible and how you create value for people, it's energizing. Being around that kind of energy and inspiration has allowed me to think bigger than I probably ever would have thought." - Dan Rosensweig

• "Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things." – Rhonda Byrne

• "Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." – Denis Waitley

• "Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savouring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-oriented." – Sonja Lyubomirsky

Related: How To Practice Gratitude While Working Remotely

Focus

Sometimes, being dedicated to your job can translate to happiness and fulfilment. These quotes can help remain focused on the job:

• "Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better." — John Carmack

• "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." – Aristotle

• "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell

• "All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."— Calvin Coolidge

• "Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done." - Robin S. Sharma

• "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." - Ella Fitzgerald

• "You can have unbelievable intelligence; you can have connections; you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people." — Marsha Evans

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

• "There is a lot of stuff we can't control, but it is completely in our power to decide what the definition of a good job is. That's up to us." - Mike Rowe

• "Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'" - Dr. Seuss

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Inspiration

These motivational quotes can help you find the inspiration you need to remain happy at work:

• "Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and be led by that." - Oprah Winfrey

• "It's not what you achieve; it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career." - Carlton Fisk

• "When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt

• "What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you'd be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?"― Karen Salmansohn

• "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." - Steve Jobs

• "If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run, then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."― Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow." - Denis Waitley

• "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it." - Katherine Whitehorn

• "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."― Thomas Edison

• "Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day." - Dalai Lama

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Success

The meaning of success differs depending on what you consider as being successful. These quotes can help you redefine success and reduce pressure and anxiety:

• "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." - Vince Lombardi

• "I think the foremost quality—there's no success without it—is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at." - Malcolm Forbes

• "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." — Thomas J. Watson

• "If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success." - Jack Canfield

• "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word—excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." - Pearl S. Buck

• "Work to become, not to acquire." - Elbert Hubbard

• Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." — John R. Wooden

• "Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream." — Marlon Wayans

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

• "You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you." - Maya Angelou

• "Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream." — Marlon Wayans

• "The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity." — Joshua Waitzkin