Work Quotes - Page 18

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.

Stephen Colbert

In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

Banning the word bossy doesn’t promote anything, especially leadership. In fact, it would actually show that being bossy works. We don’t need to ban the word bossy, we need to get rid of bossiness. The best way to do that? Be a real leader. How poetic.

80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved.

Ogwo David Emenike

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Like seasonless fowl we migrate…from East Coast to West Coastand back and forth again,for a job,for a friend,for a change,for a kick.

Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.

Dream on it, think on it, ink on it, speak on it... then proceed to bring on it. Fulfillment is ordered to find you. Shine time!

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone in the woods, men fuller of talk and rare adventure in the sun and wind and rain, than a chestnut is of meat; who were out not only in ‘75 and 1812, but have been out every day of their lives; greater men than Homer, or Chaucer, or Shakespeare, only they never got time to say so; they never took to the way of writing. Look at their fields, and imagine what they might write, if ever they should put pen to paper. Or what have they not written on the face of the earth already, clearing, and burning, and scratching, and harrowing, and plowing, and subsoiling, in and in, and out and out, and over and over, again and again, erasing what they had already written for want of parchment.

Henry David Thoreau

Be sure not to turn your life into a series of tasks which must always be performed... I know it can seem appealing to live in a state accomplishing things, always succeeding, always getting things done. But consider this. A whole life lost. A sacrifice to your fragile sense of order.

Longing, whether for a passion or person, is one of the most powerful, yet painful, emotions there is. It can drive you to its source under the most extreme conditions, or it can cripple you from obtaining your dreams. When it comes to the pull you feel, always go after it, if not, it'll eat you alive.

Jennifer Salaiz

He was always saying he deserved better. Better than this, anyway. I would nod and agree with him, but I never told him what I wanted to tell him, which was, hey, Deepak, when you say that you deserve better, even if I agree with you, you are kind of also implying that I don’t deserve better, which, maybe I don’t, maybe this is about where I belong in the grand scheme of things, in terms of high-end low-end for me as a person, but I wish you wouldn’t say it because whenever you do, it makes me feel a sharp bit of sadness and then, for the rest of the day, a kind of low-grade crumminess.

I have what takes to get the job done.

Lailah Gifty Akita

He who want to be served must first know how to serve.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Live life with great humility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Always work enthusiastically.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Work while you can and rest when you must.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We can do the work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Save your work, you may never know when the light will go off.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is enough work for everyone.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish to be a product not a consumer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.

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

Holly Lynn Payne

You have to love what you do, to give your best.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If worries begin, then realize that the task at hand is going to be disturbed and if worries do not occur, then know that the task will not be disturbed. Worries are obstacles to the work.

Whatever work you do in this world; the work itself has no value. If there is attachment-abhorrence behind that work, then only you are responsible for the next life. You are not responsible if attachment-abhorrence don’t occur.

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

Patience Johnson

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

Jamie L. Harding

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Stop and say something good about yourself! Believe what you have just said! Pray for what you have just believed! Have faith for what you just prayed for! Work out that faith! ...and surely goodness and mercy shall follow you!

Israelmore Ayivor

The presence of pain should not be the reason for your low self-image. Boldness is the ability to stand tall even when the valley seems deep. Your pain will bring gain. Just believe and go to work!

Israelmore Ayivor

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Haruki Murakami

I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.

A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

You can work to create a bright future.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There are plenty of chances in life, what's important is what you make of them.

I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk.

In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology.

In another thirty to fifty years, the demand for cheap labor will have produced even more machines over the employment of actual humans. And in that time frame, humans will have lost their voice, their power, all freedoms, and all worth. It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.

Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.

Team spirit promotes greater accomplishment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not worry about who get the credit or praise of the work done. Continue work to give your best.Your reward may come unexpected.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. One success is inherited, and the the next one is earned. While the last one is self-sought, self-served, and happens on its own terms.

You cannot build an empire hands folded.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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