Work Quotes

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

~ Samuel Butler

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

~ Jamie L. Harding

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

~ Patience Johnson

You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

~ H.w. Brands

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.

~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

~ Richard Baxter

With much prayer, more grace abounds for every good work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord saves us from overworking! Grant us grace to rest awhile.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord grant us the grace for sacred rest

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

~ Bernice Morgan

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

~ Jared Brock

Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

~ Michael Lee West

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

~ David G. Mcafee

To be a great achiever, you must first discover your main purpose of existing through feasible communication mode with your maker, the source of your destiny. This brings you a conviction to work with.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

My life is ruled by four W’s: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.

~ Ashwin Sanghi

The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life.

~ Ayn Rand

Work passionately.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Divine miracle is at work in my life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The point of working isn't to make money, you work to justify life.

~ David Baraka

If you give your work life, your work will give you life. Vies-versa

~ Maria Renteria

When you dread getting up in the morning to go somewhere, you are going to the wrong place.

~ Karen Larson-Reuter

Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Adams has done a bit of everything, from radio to television to designing computer games. Not all of them worked out. “These are life’s little learning experiences,” he said. “You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.’ “At the end of all this being-determined-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades, I think I’m better off just sitting down and putting a hundred thousand words in a cunning order.” Adams writes “slowly and painfully.” “People assume you sit in a room, looking pensive and writing great thoughts,” he said. “But you mostly sit in a room looking panic-stricken and hoping they haven’t put a guard on the door yet.

~ Douglas Adams

File Under General Wisdom: You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner?The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.

~ Anonymous Facebook

There is a great fulfillment when you commit your life to lifelong learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

~ Dave Kellett

It seems that the more we learn about our work, the easier and the more interesting it becomes to us. Tasks that used to be tedious now make sense, and we see how they're related to other elements of our jobs. Plus, they're easier to take care of now, so they don't bother us nearly as much when we need to do them. When we know more about our work and its ramifications, we can see the connections between what we do and the effects that those things have on other people.

~ Tom Walsh

That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

~ Seth Godin

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.

~ Noam Chomsky

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

~ Noam Chomsky

Life is eternal game, there are no rules. Indulge yourself.

~ Osh Marty

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.

~ Scott Hastie

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

~ Denis Diderot

Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.

~ Criss Jami