Work Quotes - Page 16

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

And we need Christians who don’t make others feel guilty (and don’t feel guilty themselves) when one of us follows a different passion than another. I read and write a lot. That’s what I do well. But that doesn’t mean anyone should feel guilty for not reading and writing as much as I do. You have your own gifts and calling. We have to be okay with other Christians doing certain good things better and more often than we do.

God gives much grace for great work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God gives grace for good work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

James A. Michener

And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self.

Joyce Carol Oates

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism--that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

What you work for, you will receive.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Sharon Salzberg

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

Sharon Salzberg

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Sharon Salzberg

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

Sharon Salzberg

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.

Sharon Salzberg

All work done with love is healing work.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Sharon Salzberg

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

Rasheed Ogunlaru

May we find more grace to do good deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you always lived in comfort you would miss the adventure that is uncomfortable, but of great reward.

To catch the dream you are chasing, change is required.

God has taken you from something in order to you to something.

It's through the test, that we find our true strength.

No matter how many times you think you have failed, there is always another opportunity for you to succeed.

Choose to believe the promise of God over the obstacles of man.

It is often the tiny steps that define the big moments in our dreams.

If we don't chase our dreams then we will be ran over by our fears.

Faith is trusting, that no matter what plan you had, God has a better one.

Be patient and pray for God will make a way.

Life is about learning to fly, when everyone says you will fall.

It's not about the storms we go through, it's about the umbrella that gets us through.

Life isn't about being perfect, it's about being perfected.

Your life isn't determined by your mistakes, but by your determination to keep going despite of them.

God shall shine through the person you are and not the mistakes you made.

You life is full of purpose. Push past the set back and press into the set up.

Warriors will always have wounds from the battle, but they are only stronger from them.

Believe that fighter in you is stronger than anything you will ever face.

Life is defined by the lives you touch, and not by the mistakes you've made.

Fix your eyes on what you believe and not what you see.

God will cause you to prosper, even when man says you won't.

If you are looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for a reason to continue you must fight for it.

Today you are planting seeds to your dream. Be patient because it will be a large harvest.

We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.

Madeleine L'Engle

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.

Thomm Quackenbush

I was a really good waitress. Waitressing takes a certain gusto. You need a good memory and an ability to connect with people fast. You have to learn how to treat the kitchen as well as you treat the customers. You have to figure out which crazy people to listen to and which crazy people to ignore. I loved waiting tables because when you cashed out at the end of the night your job was truly over. You wiped down your section and paid out your busboy and you knew your work was done.

If you want your dreams to work out for you, you must work with them. Pay the price and have the package of your accomplishments in full versions.

Israelmore Ayivor

When the grass is greener at other people's feet, it is not because the grass chose to take up that complexion. But it is because, they have deliberately irrigated it on regular accounts.

Israelmore Ayivor

If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it.

Israelmore Ayivor

Your dreams are like the cement. If you water it with actions, it becomes a hard concrete mass. But if you leave it exposed and unwatered, the air will easily blow it away!

Israelmore Ayivor

When God calls you to build 100 castles on earth and you built 98, take the 99th as if it's the begining of your work and work hard to finish the race with all excellence. Go the extra mile!

Israelmore Ayivor

You may have the greatest vision, plans or goals as you may term it. You can call it Vison 2020, Vision 2045 or whatever. But remember, not work is done unless a distance is covered!

Israelmore Ayivor

The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest person is the one who has no vision. Visionlessness is poverty in disguise.

Israelmore Ayivor

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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