Work Quotes - Page 11

He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his objective added nobility to everything he did.

Honoré de Balzac

Be great in all you do.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.

John Lanchester

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.

Charles Bukowski

Periods are a period when nature forces prostitutes to go on leave.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.

Auliq-Ice

We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment deprives you of purpose

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Torn clothes are funny … until your dad gets fired.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A vagina is an uneducated woman’s diploma.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.

Ellen J. Barrier

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.

Mortimer J. Adler

The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.

Chalene Johnson

For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure,the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. Totell him that it is disgusting to spend one’s life shoveling up hotturds is a piece of imbecility. A man can get to love shit if hislivelihood depends on it, if his happiness is involved.

A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

At its core, each vocation is a particular, unique instantiation of the father’s summons to the true homeland of the kingdom. The etymological root of the word ‘vocation’ points in this direction. The word is derived from the Latin verb “vocare” – “to call.” Thus, through the son the father calls each one of us home.

When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body — or vagina — has to do the opposite.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

... In a ROWE* people don't have schedules.They show up when they want.They don't have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime.They just have to get their work done.How they do it ?When they do it ?Where they do it ?It's totally up to them.Meetings & this kind of environments are Optional.What happens ... ?Almost across the board !- Productivity goes up- Worker Engagement goes up- Worker Satisfaction goes up- Turnovers goes down- Autonomy .. Mastery .. Purpose -these are the building blocks of new way of doing things."______________________________________________________________*ROWE: results-only work environment

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This is not his job, I thought, it's his passion.

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

Ashok Kallarakkal

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

Ernest Vincent Wright

, “As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

Alexander the Great

Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder.

Alcurtis Turner

And I will wait for Jarod to work for me. For free, cause if it's paid, it's work and not love, unless, of course he loves to work, in which case he’ll surely love working for me, because I love people who love to do that to love to do that.

You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

Idowu Koyenikan

Loving your work doesn’t mean finding a job you can tolerate for eight hours a day, but rather a job that gets you flying out of bed in the morning like a Jack Russell who just had a firecracker stuffed up his ass.

Ari Gold

Explore the endless opportunities in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can find your perfect job, create one.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can create your ideal job.

Lailah Gifty Akita

He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's hypocritical to expect a job based on a curriculum built out of companies that for whatever reason rejected you.

If you are not happy with the work you do, change it

You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.

One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and whatpeople can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities,the result is boredom. But when thematch is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Marianne Williamson

I will serve with all my might.

Lailah Gifty Akita

All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.

The grace of service is the spirit of belonging.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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