Work Quotes

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.

~ Patricia Highsmith

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.

~ Patricia Highsmith

Occupational Safety & Health Administration's (OSHA) lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work.

~ Steven Magee

But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

~ Agatha Christie

During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of their daily work routine.

~ Steven Magee

Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.

~ Ryan Holiday

Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.

~ Ryan Holiday

It's easy to equate longing with love. It's the same way it was with your mother. You worked to earn her love. You loved and were not appreciated. You learned that love was Work and Wanting and Giving and Longing. This is what you learned love was and you are still trying to find it by that old definition. But that is not what love is.

~ Kate Mcgahan

When you select a career, it not only affects you but many people who depend on your work.

~ Dhaval Gajera

Do we miss out on love because we are working so hard? Or are we working so hard because we missed out on love?

~ Kate Mcgahan

As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'.

~ Andrew Wilson

God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasure. He works in a man; He works on a man; He works through a man; He works around a man. Know that He does far more than simply work for a man. And yet, even as He Himself needs no one else, everyone else is ever in need of Him.

~ Criss Jami

No legitimate work, undertaken for the glory of God, is menial or meaningless. Hard physical labor wasn’t beneath the dignity of the Son of God. Jesus worked as a carpenter for about seventeen years and only about three years doing itinerant ministry. Carpentry was a lowly, ill-paying profession. Yet Jesus was doing God’s work when pounding a nail just as much as He was doing it when preaching on a hillside–because He was doing what God wanted Him to do when God wanted Him to do it (p. 143).

~ Nancy Leigh Demoss

Unless, of course, one chose to join the increasing numbers who had decided they were so deep in despair that there was nothing worse to fear in life. These were men who had finally, and so early, so surprisingly early seen enough of something in their own ives and in the lives around them to convince them of the final futility of efforts of efforts to break the mean monthly cycle of debt and borrowing, borrowing and debt.

~ Ayi Kwei Armah

People say I was made for thisNothin' else would I trade for thisAnd just think I get paid for this...

~ Bobby Darin

In the meantime, I had to get dressed and go to work, because going to work in my pajamas was apparently the definition of unprofessional. Cookie's words. I looked it up though. She was wrong. Webster's mentioned nothing about pajamas.

~ Darynda Jones

Have the STRENGTH to say “no” to the status quo. Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent.

~ Richie Norton

WE MAY FEEL...BUT WE DON'TWe may feel the need to change employment, but we don’t.We may feel the need to start a specific project, but we don’t.We may feel the need to pursue higher education, but we don’tWe may feel the need to heal a broken relationship, but we don’t.We may feel the need to work to improve our spiritual lives, but we don’t.We may feel the need to take steps toward a healthier physical or emotional life for ourselves and/or our family, but again, we don’t.(This list could likely go on for eternity.)The desire for progression is innate, but the problem we face is that the actual act of progression is also a choice.Without embracing our inherent need for progress, for positive growth and/or change, we’ll still go on living....But at what cost?

~ Richie Norton

How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in. Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you’ll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That’s the way our strange world works.

~ Richie Norton

Always err on the side of generosity.

~ Richie Norton

The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm.

~ Mary Roach

No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

~ James S.a. Corey

My worth is not based on the ‘work of my hands’ despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am the ‘work of God’s hands.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

~ Scott Mccloud

I dream it shatters, I expect and dissapoints, I get tired & Same dream insists I want to be your & my fatigue smiles as whole energy be in me .

~ Ankit Samrat

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.

~ M. Scott Peck

When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning.

~ Katelyn Beaty

Nobody will achieve anything just by dreaming.

~ Graham Speechley

Let us work joyfully while we have the strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I prefer to rule and work in Nigeria in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free in the name of my country.

~ Saminu Kanti

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art.

~ Richie Norton

People who say it's just business are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.

~ Richie Norton

How to change the world in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted

~ Richie Norton

We’re all scared.Yes, all of us. I’m afraid every day. If I’m not afraid, I must not be doing something I need to be doing. I believe that when you’re doing important work, you feel fear because you don’t want to fail. The challenge is to not let the fear stop you from doing the work that will enable you to achieve your goals. You need to recognize the fear for what it is and allow your “why” (your compelling vision) for what you’re doing be bigger than the fear itself.So where do you start? Identify your fears. As they say, name it to tame it. Then, move forward.

~ Richie Norton

Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.

~ Richie Norton

Give your idea a chance. You’ll never hit a home run (or a base hit for that matter) if you don’t swing.

~ Richie Norton

Is it weird that when I see a cool t shirt or pick up a toothbrush or see a new car I don't think about the product itself? I think about the thousands of people and dollars to make it.I think about how the retailer that took the risk to buy and resell it. Then I work backwards to the store costs, the distributer who got it there, the shipping company that brought it over from China, the factory workers that made it, the people that sourced the materials and the people that harvested the raw materials, and on and on...The global economy is amazing. Your $20 t-shirt is a freaking miracle.

~ Richie Norton

My parents did a great job of creating a home we wanted to return to...and all of our friends wanted to be there too.

~ Richie Norton

Sometimes I work so long and so hard that I have no idea what day or time it is. I forget to eat. I don't get ready for the day. I fall asleep on the couch and wake up and get back to work.

~ Richie Norton

Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.

~ Richie Norton