Work Quotes

I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb -- a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than you were rudely shocked in to consciousness by the alarm. That you might missed the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them.

~ Jojo Moyes

What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It must be remembered that the forty hour work week until age sixty five was designed by governments and corporations and not the medical profession.

~ Steven Magee

The funny thing about work itself, it was so bearable. The dreariest task was perfectly bearable. It presented challenges to overcome, the distraction provided by a sense of urgency, and the things made work utterly, even harmoniously bearable.

~ Joshua Ferris

One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work provides a person with a temporary purpose and an accompanying sense of security that there is a fitting place in this world for a person of their temperament and talent.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.

~ Haruki Murakami

So unsirious work... I behave nice because I want people to behave in the same way with me.

~ Deyth Banger

I used to think that your calling was about doing something good in this world. Now I understand it’s about becoming someone good—and letting that goodness impact the world around you.

~ Jeff Goins

Work on making yourself a complete being. Though you were born with the physical traits of one sex, you possess the characteristics of both - including those of plants and animals. You were created as a nearly complete universal being, but with flaws. True perfection can only be achieved when one recognizes that they need to combine their oneness with others and nature. Only then is one considered complete.

~ Suzy Kassem

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

~ Criss Jami

There is no greater peace than work and no greater happiness than progress.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Never ever work! Do everything for fun. Remember, life is for joy!

~ Debasish Mridha

A marriage takes work. You have to constantly put energy into it to keep it from falling apart. Going nowhere takes energy. Stability isn't what you get when you do nothing. It's what you can hope to achieve when you work hard.

~ Joshua Edward Smith

I suppose one oughtn’t to marry anybody, unless one’s prepared to make him a full-time job.”“Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don’t look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Do not waste your life over working.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Work while you can.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is enough work for everyone. May you find your purpose and passionately live it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Find the willpower to begin work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find much more grace for everyday life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t allow the demands of work load, make you lose touch with life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May God give you overflowing grace for every good work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I take pleasure in an excellent work done.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him--why, certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same.

~ Mark Twain

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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

80% of people work for money. The rest are called successful people.

~ Dhaval Gajera

Many people want money but do not love to work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is more to life than working for money.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who think life is money, chase it. But those who think life is sharing live to give.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.

~ Suzy Kassem

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

~ Criss Jami

There is more to life than living to earn money.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My life, my strength and my time are my greatest riches.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everybody must work even if you are not working for money. You must work to actualize yourself.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Work indeed has many more benefits than money.

~ Sunday Adelaja

People must be taught that money is not the most important benefit of work.

~ Sunday Adelaja