Work Quotes - Page 37

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

Thomas Merton

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Seneca

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Eric Hoffer

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

Sigmund Freud

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

Christopher Paolini

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Honoré de Balzac

What I've learnt - to my cost - on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad behaviour so long as you're giving them what they want. They'll laugh and get into it and enjoy the anecdotes and the craziness and the mayhem as long as you're going your job well, but the minute you're not, you're fucked. They'll wipe their hands of you without a second glance.

Russell Brand

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

Flannery O'Connor

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

Criss Jami

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.

Bill Watterson

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983

Winston S. Churchill

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Charles Bukowski

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

Karl Lagerfeld

The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.

Martin Luther

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

Malcolm Gladwell

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

Adam Smith

Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."Work?" Tally said.They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.

Scott Westerfeld

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

Robert Anderson

You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.

Anonymous

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

Simon Sinek

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Henry Ford

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglass

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

Edward Gorey

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Victor Hugo

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Maya Angelou

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...

Tom Petty

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Emily Brontë

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Anne Frank

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Gordon B. Hinckley

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Tina Fey

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Peter F Drucker

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

Hermann Hesse

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

John Kennedy Toole

Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.

Madeleine L'Engle

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

Jim Butcher

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

Lady Gaga

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Dave Barry

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

Albert Einstein

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Terry Pratchett

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

Thomas A. Edison

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

Dr. Seuss

I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.

Joseph Conrad

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

J.M. Barrie

Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet again. I will give you some free advice, though.”“Will it cost me anything?”“What? I just said it was free!” said Miss Tick.“Yes, but my father said that free advice often turns out to be expensive,” said Tiffany.Miss Tick sniffed. “You could say this advice is priceless,” she said, “Are you listening?”“Yes,” said Tiffany.“Good. Now...if you trust in yourself...”“Yes?”“...and believe in your dreams...”“Yes?”“...and follow your star...” Miss Tick went on.“Yes?”“...you’ll still be beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Goodbye.

Terry Pratchett

We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We work in the best of our abilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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