Work Quotes

Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.

~ Joyce Rachelle

The key to career advancement is appearing valuable despite all hard evidence to the contrary. … If you add any actual value to your company today, your career is probably not moving in the right direction. Real work is for people at the bottom who plan to stay there.

~ Scott Adams

Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It is not who will eat beans, but who will pick it that is scarce.

~ Magnus Nwagu Amudi

I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.

~ J.c. Lillis

If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work

~ Sunday Adelaja

If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us

~ Sunday Adelaja

In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” you need to not understand your mission, but also work at self-improvement

~ Sunday Adelaja

Rich people don’t work for money, they are doing what they like to do; they devote themselves to a job they love and do not live waiting for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but work passionately until the end of their lives

~ Sunday Adelaja

In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor

~ Sunday Adelaja

God always estimates how diligent a person is to his work.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams

~ Sunday Adelaja

For the present time, just do your job well

~ Sunday Adelaja

Rich people do not work for money, they are doing what they like to do

~ Sunday Adelaja

Rich people do not work for money, they devote themselves to the work they love and do not wait for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but keep working passionately until the end of their lives

~ Sunday Adelaja

There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.

~ Lily Graham

Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci’s. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I’d like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Before you reprimand or condemn people on a particular act, make sure you have worked on yourself overtime such that you can't be found guilty of such act; if not you will be a victim of your own laws and rules

~ Topsy Gift

A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

~ Joanna Russ

I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot.

~ Marc Andreessen

I can’t even believe the world we live in. My parents raised me to work hard, not to ever expect any handouts in life – and to treat people with respect.

~ Bristol Palin

You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring,…It is a different story.

~ Mohamed Saad

I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment–all alone. And I think of the rent I'm paying. And it's crazy. But then, it's what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I'm lonely.

~ Arthur Miller

The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.

~ Zig Ziglar

So I watch her work and put all her energy, all her force, all herself, all is inside her work. Does she think that this is what life means? She goes to work in the dark and comes home when it’s dark. Does she know what the world looks like when the sun is shining?

~ Jinat Rehana Begum

Prof. Gerd Gleixner said “ Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks .

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

~ Michael Hogan

Some people never stop working, especially the demanding type of person whom the world never seems to touch, the indomitable person whom is determined to make the world their own place.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Human labor, the manual work that people engage in to build their world, both physical and spiritual, defines the realization of their conceptual realm.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The person you marry is the person you fight with. The house you buy is the house you repair. The dream job you take is the job you stress over. Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice—whatever makes us feel good will also inevitably make us feel bad. What we gain is also what we lose. What creates our positive experiences will define our negative experiences.

~ Mark Manson

There is no second place for doing first rate work.

~ Jeffrey Fry

One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless.

~ Haruki Murakami

There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be.

~ Christopher Ash

The best boss is the one who bosses the least.

~ Ralph Moody

A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To create different work, one needs new tools and materials

~ Natasha Tsakos

Writing is a worthwhile work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita