Job Quotes

It's almost never the kind of person you are but the kind of job you do decides how much you get paid.

~ Saahil Prem

Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.

~ Joanie Connell

Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.

~ Thomas Hughes

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

~ Robert A. Caro

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

~ Alcurtis Turner

When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here. And my grandfather's response was: Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you. It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.

~ Jason Reitman

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot conceive how women's colleges, inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded or maintained denying such a prin

~ Harriet Brooks

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

You better get used to touchy-feely around here, sweetie

~ Alex Rosa

The end of the world came and my job did not change.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

~ Alan Shepard

You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don’t do fractions.

~ John Connolly

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

Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He holds back for our sakes. Re-creation involves us; we are, in fact, at the center of his plan...the motive behind all human history, is to develop us, not God. Our very existence announces to the powers in the universe that restoration is under way. Every act of faith by every one of the people of God is like the tolling of a bell, and a faith like Job's reverberates throughout the universe.

~ Philip Yancey

I thought that teaching twenty-eight energetic and needy children how to read had to be the hardest job on earth. I was wrong - mothering was. Now I had to give up my right to sleep when I needed it, to a meal without interruptions, to relaxation when I wanted it, and most importantly, my right to withdraw when I felt overwhelmed.

~ Jani Ortlund

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man, he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

~ Walter Chrysler

I didn’t want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.

~ Sara Sheridan

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People enjoy doing what they do best.

~ Rafael K Nunes

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

If everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionary and brilliant. … If you got to spend every day of your life doing what you love, you can’t help but be the best in the world at that. And you get to smile every day for doing so. And you’ll be working at it almost to the exclusion of personal hygiene, and your friends are knocking on your door, saying, “Don’t you need a vacation?!,” and you don’t even know what the word “vacation” means because what you’re doing is what you want to do and a vacation from that is anything but a vacation — that’s the state of mind of somebody who’s doing what others might call visionary and brilliant.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

You know, Piggly Wiggly never could hang on to a night stock manager. Your math skills would be a plus, maybe even your Spanish, and you don't mind staying up late.Piggly Wiggly, wow. I hadn't thought about that. I'll swing by, pick up an application tomorrow. But if it doesn't pan out maybe ... Never mind, it's a crazy idea.No, tell me. I want to hear it.Well, just as a backup plan, I did hear that Sony has an opening. They're, um, they're looking for a rock star. The hours suck, but it's no worse than night stock manager at Pigs. I bet it pays better too.Isabel stopped in her tracks, playfully slapping his arm. Aidan, that's genius! That's what you should do! I've heard you sing, you can carry a decent tune. She looked him up and down. With a little work, you can probably pull off the image.He tugged on her arms until she was in his. Only if you're sure. Only if it's what we want.Aidan, it's who you are. I've known it since the day we brought that first guitar here. I'd never want to take that away.

~ Laura Spinella

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist’s job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.

~ Edward Teller

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Degree lets you to the chair of interview, but it cannot provide you job

~ Pawan Mehra

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Job was comfortless before the speech of Jehovah and is comforted after it. He has been told nothing, but he feels the terrible and tingling atmosphere of something which is too good to be told.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

~ Claire Messud

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.

~ Mark Doherty

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

I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter.”“No one is just a woodcutter,” replied Terence.“A person's always more than his present occupation.

~ Gerald Morris

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