Work Quotes

Mother Teresa

Work without love is slavery.

Jerome K. Jerome

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

George Carlin

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

Leo Tolstoy

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness.

William James

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

John Wooden

Don't mistake activity with achievement.. John Wooden
Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

if you rest at work, you will work at rest

Honeya

Ever thought, that the only thing a man can do for ten/twelve hours a day is work.

He can't eat for ten hours; he can't drink for ten hours; he can't make love for ten hours.

The only thing a man can do for ten hours is ‪#‎work‬.

Jacob M. Appel

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

Amit Kalantri

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.. Amit Kalantri
Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

Richard Marius

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

Rob Liano

All success comes down to this . . . action. Rob Liano
All success comes down to this . . . action

Kevin Awad

Don't work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything is better than stagnation.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

G.I. Gurdjieff

Only super-efforts count.

Arthur Conan Doyle

‎A change of work is the best rest.

Jenil Kanani

If you are not enjoy your work, leave the work

Lailah Gifty Akita

Work hard to achieve your dreams.

VicDo

Less you know, more you work.

Bryant McGill

Work to become whole enough to love and to be loved.

David Frost

DO what you LOVE what you DO !

Holly Lynn Payne

....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

Alcurtis Turner

To be great at anything that you do, you have to love it! but also give it your all..

John Lubbock

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Success comes with failure which leads to doubts but with determination we can still achieve.. Jonathan
Success comes with failure which leads to doubts but with determination we can still achieve.

Vivien Leigh

Life is too short to work so hard.

Tama Kieves

We don't choose our wildest dreams. They choose us.

Hans Christian Andersen

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

Idowu Koyenikan

The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.

Omar Sharif

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

George Strait

We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.

George Strait

I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.

Emiliano Zapata

The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.

Donald Trump

The other candidates — they went in, they didn’t know the air conditioning didn’t work. They sweated like dogs…How are they gonna beat ISIS? I don’t think it’s gonna happen.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

Lady Gaga

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

Coco Chanel

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.. Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Charles J. Sykes

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Charles Lamb

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

Dave Barry

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

Ronald Reagan

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Kurt Vonnegut

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Brian Andreas

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.

Gustave Flaubert

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.. Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Simone De Beauvoir

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

Jason Mraz

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

Joyce Meyer

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.

Alan W. Watts

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Confucius

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Lao Tzu

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

John Irving

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Mary Oliver

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Deepak Chopra

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Richard Yates

You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.

Alain De Botton

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Ayn Rand

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.

We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Paulo Coelho

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

Hubert Selby Jr.

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

Louisa May Alcott

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.

Jim Henson

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Marcus Aurelius

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

Rachael Allen

When you've earned something, I mean really earned it, no one can make you doubt that you deserve it. They can't say it isn't yours. There's something about getting a thing that you've bled and fought for that makes the getting that much sweeter.

Rachael Allen

We have to work ten times harder to get things that seem to be handed to other people. But that's okay because I think it gives us a secret strength that the people who coast through life will never know.

Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?

Michel De Montaigne

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Karl Lagerfeld

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Edward Abbey

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Amit Kalantri

I don't speak very well, I work very well.. Amit Kalantri
I don't speak very well, I work very well.

Amit Kalantri

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.. Amit Kalantri
The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.

Scott Hastie

The light needs only our trust
And, of course, the darkness
To work its eternal alchemy.

Heather Chapple

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics
Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.

Honoré De Balzac

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Ilona Andrews

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Mary Balogh

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Lionel Shriver

The good life doesn't knock on the door.
Joy is a job.

Dale Carnegie

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Sujit Lalwani

When you are stressed on mind...to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind!

Arkady Strugatsky

But why in the world do we need money, if all we ever do is keep working?

Buddhadeva Bose

No time for happiness, no time for sorrow. Work is the best of physicians.

Ian McEwan

He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

Graham Greene

I recognized my work for what it was-as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one
I recognized my work for what it was-as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point is there in leaving some books behind any more than bottles, clothes, or cheap jewellry?

Corrie Ten Boom

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

Said Nursî

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

Jess C. Scott

If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.

A.W. Tozer

Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

A.W. Tozer

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

Elisabeth Elliot

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

Khalid Masood

Time is the best work of God.

Barack Obama

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

George Eliot

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler;
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Dave Ramsey

Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

Roman Payne

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Stevie Smith

It is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secret
A tree that grows in secret
That bears fruit in secret
That ripened falls to the ground in secret
And manures the parent tree
Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret
The sap rising and the tears falling.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.

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