Work Quotes

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful, the best occupations are the least forced.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

~ Edward Abbey

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

~ Criss Jami

Thinking about the future is the worst way of thinking about the future. Working on your future is the best way of thinking about your future.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

The Awakening Land p628-629 Hardship and work, that's what his mother always harped on. Once when he had refused to work on the lot, she had said, You're going to live longer than I do, Chancey. Watch for all kinds of new-fangled notions to take away folks' troubles without their having to work. That's what folks today want and that's what will ruin them more than anything else. Could there be something after all in this hardship-and-work business, he pondered. He had thought hardship and work the symptoms of a pioneer era, things of the past. He believed that his generation had outlived and outlawed them, was creating a new life of comfort, ease and peace. And yet war, the cruelest hardship of all, war between brothers, was on them today like a madness. Did it mean that the need for strength and toughness was to be always with them; that the farther they advanced, the more brilliant and intelligent they became, the more terrible would be the hardship that descended upon them, and the more crying the need of hardihood to be saved.

~ Conrad Richter

Do not spend all your strength to make money.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.

~ Anthony Ryan

A seeker of radical strenght Keeps everything on track, Feeble force yields at length, Not sure where to go back. When one can't find courage, And all the efforts seem vain, It's advised to fight like a sage: Be powerful like a bullet train! Too much work and no play Can make a brain go astray! Determined to live and stay Can lead life into a long way.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Wasting time is when seconds, minutes and hours are passing without being converted

~ Sunday Adelaja

Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people

~ Sunday Adelaja

To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time

~ Sunday Adelaja

To fully communicate with people, you need to find tactics that would interest them

~ Sunday Adelaja

To make your Opinion Count,you have to do something morethan just making Money.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!

~ C. Joybell C.

Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.

~ Steve Pavlina

Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set standards...!

~ Sujit Lalwani

Me, well, there is meaning to the work and things I've done. But I never started an exercise revolution. I never became controversial because of my political beliefs. I don't believe I've affected change on a grand scale. I think I made a contribution. I know I've made people laugh. Through characters I have played, I've certainly allowed people to access their own expression of sadness or remorse, anger or disappointment. I've always believed that being an actor is a great service job. And I am of service. But it's just a job. So much of the glitz and fame, I can't even remember. I have blank spots where spotlights have been. It's easier for me to remember the ordinary goings-on of my life, because that's what my life is most of the time. It's just a life. Mine, like yours, has moaned and groaned. Stretched and turned. Sometimes good, oftentimes bad. People up and gone, love found and thrown away. Many moments make up a life. I am surprised by how many of my fame moments are blank spots. The volume turned down. Fame wants to turn up the volume on everything. It wears me out and intrudes on my need for solitude.

~ Katey Sagal

The most important key to bettering yourself - is just that yourself - (g swiss)

~ G Swiss

Choose a job you love, Your work is going to fill a large part of your life.

~ Napz Cherub Pellazo

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~ Irina Binder

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.

~ Frederick Lewis Donaldson

All happiness depends on courage and work.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

~ William James

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.

~ Ilona Andrews

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

~ Mary Balogh

[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey...What I’d see most anyday.

~ Jess C. Scott

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

~ Lionel Shriver

However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief that our work should make us happy. All societies have had work at their centre; ours is the first to suggest that it could be something more than a punishment or a penance. Ours is the first to imply that we should seek to work even in the absence of a financial imperative.

~ Alain De Botton

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

~ Dale Carnegie

When you are stressed on mind...to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind!

~ Sujit Lalwani

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensible to the preservation and justification of existence in society. Professional activity is a source of special satisfaction if it is a freely chosen one — if, that is to say, by means of sublimation, it makes possible the use of existing inclinations, of persisting or constitutionally reinforced instinctual impulses. And yet, as a path to happiness, work is not highly prized by men. They do not strive after it as they do after other possibilities of satisfaction. The great majority of people only work under the stress of necessity, and this natural human aversion to work raises most difficult social problems.

~ Sigmund Freud

How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion.

~ Ernst Jünger

Don't pay attention to people Who tell you can't do it at lenght. Trusting your own instincts Can lead to what's quintessential. Make their limitation be your strenght. You might as well contradict them And then reach your full potential.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

make sure you choose work that makes you happy

~ Randy Susan Meyers

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job

~ Warren Buffett