Job Quotes

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?

~ Oliver

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

~ Richard Belzer

most importantly lovelike it's the only thing you knowat the end of the day all this means nothingthis page where you're sitting your degree your jobyour money nothing even matters except love and human connectionwho you lovedand how deeply you loved themhow you touched the people around you and how much you gave them

~ Rupi Kaur

It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Many people want money but do not love to work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A family man shouldn't trade his peace for profits, it is the job of a businessman.

~ Amit Kalantri

There is grace for survival, I survived two years without a regular salary.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Blessings Are ImmeasurableYou can lose A child Or a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport, Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel like You've lost everything,And keep on losing. Stop Counting your losses,And start counting your Blessings. Only then will you discover That losses are always easier to point out and count Than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber Your losses, For they are truly Immeasurable.It is only normal thatPeople count losses with Their minds,And ignoreTo count blessingsWith the graciousnessOf their hearts.

~ Suzy Kassem

I know the value of my time!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drugged, sitting there, watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.

~ Jean Rhys

Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Abba, you may not like it, but what I'm doing is important. If you don't agree, then I'm sorry. I can't do anything about it.

~ Farahad Zama

Just continue to walk in the light you have been given, and leave the future in God's hands. If He is calling you to do a job, He will make it possible for you to care for your family and overcome any other barriers to that responsibility.

~ James C. Dobson

How can I give up stalking when I have a family to feed? Get a job? I don't want to work for you, your work makes me puke, do you understand? This is the way I figure it: if a man works with you, he is always working for one of you, he is a slave and nothing else. And I always wanted to be myself, on my own, so that I could spit at you all, at your boredom and despair.

~ Arkady Strugatsky

A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

~ H.w. Brands

Nanak dukhiya sab sansaar!This whole world is ridden with Sorrow.Stop comparing as we all have a fucked up life, family and job! No matter what others show and potray! ;)Jhaak ke dekhoge (I mean kareeb se) toh pata chalega ki saamne waale ke toh zyaada phate hai hahahahahaha

~ Honeya

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

~ Elizabeth George

Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs.

~ Steven Magee

If you are looking for a job that may make you sick, I can recommend working at a high powered solar photovoltaic (PV) utility power plant.

~ Steven Magee

Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

~ Jodi Picoult

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

~ Benjamin Carson

To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.

~ Suzy Kassem

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

~ Johnny Rich

Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.

~ Criss Jami

But I was 22 when I started this job, and you know what? Sometimes it really is okay to just have a fucking job. Not a passion, not a career, but a steadfast source of bi-weekly income deposited directly into a checking account from which food, and medicine, and apps one totally forgot about having downloaded will be paid for.

~ Samantha Irby

Of course, while Katherine took the accolades in stride, she never took the work for granted. Not a morning dawned that she didn't wake up eager to get to the office. The passion that she had for her job was a gift, one that few people ever experienced.

~ Margot Lee Shetterly

Use your passion to create a job.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Even his own speeches bored him.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.

~ Lauren Rowe

Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not waste your life, in search for a job.Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Doing what you love is a sacred life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are capable of performing the task.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece...

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind, alongside a higher calling, with your higher calling being the point man.

~ Criss Jami

[A]though people get paid to do their jobs, you cannot pay someone to do their job passionately and wholeheartedly. Those qualities are not for sale; they are themselves gifts that can only be given freely, and are in many, many fields.

~ Rebecca Solnit