Work Quotes

If you want to be happy, work with all your heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And the book... and the work.. and the life goes to the whole beginning... and trying to answer how in real did we met.(Mr.Nobody, No One Tell)

~ Deyth Banger

The distinction between paid labor and housework implied in working-class men's yearning for the domestic ideal persisted in later-nineteenth-century analyses of women's unpaid labor and was eventually replicated in Capital. Because wives' work was laregely unpaid, and because husbands came to the marketplace as the possessors of their wives' labor, Marx did not address the role of housework in the labor exchange that led to surplus value. Neither did he attend to the dynamics that permitted the husband to lay claim, in the price of his own labor, to the value of his wife's work.

~ Jeanne Boydston

It is a must to excel in our work.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Historians have generally described the coming of industrialization in terms of changes in paid work. The transformation has been framed as one from a community of comparatively independent producers to a class of wage workers.

~ Jeanne Boydston

African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.

~ Leshawn Harris

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.

~ Maria Semple

Vocation” comes from the Latin vocare (to call) and means the work a man is called to by God.There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice of God rather than of society, say, or the superego, or self-interest.The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need to do and (b) that the world needs to have done. If you find your work rewarding, you have presumably met requirement (a), but if your work does not benefit others, the chances are you have missed requirement (b). On the other hand, if your work does benefit others, you have probably met requirement (b), but if most of the time you are unhappy with it, the chances are you have not only bypassed (a) but probably aren’t helping your customers much either.Neither the hair shirt nor the soft berth will do. The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s hunger meet.

~ Frederick Buechner

That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.

~ Ravi Zacharias

Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they had endured long hours in the grey English winter or freezing American climes, for this that they had worked and planned and worked extra hours/ The horrible feelings of stress, tension, anger and frustration that coursed through their veins every day almost unnoticed began to fade.

~ Amanda Craig

My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.

~ Sudheer Reddy

It’s unthinkable, now to live as her parents had done, going to work from nine to five and enjoying the benefits of the newly-formed health and education services. What paradise it had seemed! Now, in order to pay their exorbitant mortgages, and ever more exorbitant fuel prices, British adults have to work long hours – the longest, it is said, in Europe… Everyone they know, everyone they see, is just like them, living in houses like these, reading the same papers, seeing the same films and TV programmes and plays, buying from the same shops and sending their children to the same schools; and they think it will go on for ever, either ever-mounting property prices cushioning them. But it can’t.

~ Amanda Craig

the first place smelled like work, so I took the second

~ Charles Bukowski

Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.

~ D.h. Lawrence

Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.

~ Amanda Craig

I live, eat, spend, travel, support a family, entertain.....but I do not go to work. There is something wrong. My nest egg just keeps growing.

~ Manoj Arora

Do it with passion or not at all.

~ Anonymous

I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

~ Walt Whitman

...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

~ Mark Batterson

Think of a typical full-time worker, who's in the office from nine to five daily, but takes thirty minutes for lunch, leaves an hour early on Friday, and comes in an hour late on Tuesday due to a dental appointment. That puts her at 35.5 hours for the week. One errand tacked on to the end of lunch one day or a longish midmorning break will pull her under that thirty-five-hour threshold that defines full time.

~ Laura Vanderkam

Without work, we die daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Patience is one of the keys to success but I came to understand that you have to be patient while working not while waiting. After sowing, you still have to water your seed while waiting for the fruits.

~ Cherry Mpio

Live your life with the will, to understand life.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

~ Karl Marx

Another decent possibility my critics implicitly deny is that of work as a gift…They assume—and this is the orthodox assumption of the industrial economy—that the only help worth giving is not given at all, but sold. Love, friendship, neighbourliness, compassion, duty—what are they?

~ Wendell Berry

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.

~ Robert Wringham

With today’s technology, social attitudes and appetite for self-actualisation, we’d ideally look upon our work with a sense of pride, involvement and accomplishment. But we’re rarely given the chance. Instead, we pretend to love our jobs with an almost idiotic zeal, while being secretly exhausted and insulted by them.

~ Robert Wringham

Yes.Work is love made visible.

~ Ama Ata Aidoo

[W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to be available to work all the time. Scheduling is impossible.

~ Linda Tirado

Remember your created limits. So much of workaholism is a defiance of the physical limitations that God our creator has imposed upon us.

~ Tim Challies

My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.

~ Olaf Stapledon

Use your profession to fund your passion.

~ Habeeb Akande

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

If you're going to be working, you might as well work with passion and give it all you've got.

~ Farshad Asl

...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest. As to going a visiting, where can we not go, if we will; where have we not been, when we would; starting our fancy away from our Christmas Tree!

~ Charles Dickens

No one plows the field just by thinking about it.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Manage the inn, Jane, save it. Have a mission in life. Discover that work worth doing is about more than profit and toil. It's about using the gifts and ability you've been given to serve your fellow man and please your Maker.

~ Julie Klassen

To work properly as A.I.... - I should have doubt... and contradictory in my code....

~ Deyth Banger

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

~ Robert Brault

I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.

~ Kamand Kojouri