Work Quotes

I will work while I can.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave bye-bye to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The vision of life is not a discovery; it's a work and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built on your visions if you go high and find yourself doing the vice. Going higher should be a priority; but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

All the training was necessary for my personal development.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Any decision can be easier if you think carefully about your goals; the dimensions of yourself that are most important to you; your needs and wants; the specific costs and benefits associated with your choices; the commensurability of those choices; and whether certain goals should be sequenced instead of pursued simultaneously to give you a better chance of success. Instead of striving for work–life balance, or even worrying about juggling on the balance beam, use this framework to pursue your life’s work—holistically seeking both success and satisfaction.

~ Eric C. Sinoway

There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

~ Brandon Stanton

You need alot of patient to keep working.It takes time for the goals to be realized.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wake up every morning thinking about all the great things I am going to accomplish that day, and I go to bed every night thinking about all the even greater things I’m going to have to accomplish tomorrow to make up for the nothing I did today.

~ John A. Ashley

The harder the fight, the greater the victory.

~ Chris Burkmenn

Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Whatever you want in life, do one thing every day which brings you a little closer towards attainment of your goal. Even if it means spending a few minutes. No matter how small the effort is, if done consistently, it will start compounding and before you know it, you would have already realized your dream.

~ Zeeshan Raza

So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going to find this very healthy and clear, but I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends.

~ Allen Ginsberg

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

~ Zig Ziglar

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism--that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured

~ Max Stirner

And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

~ James A. Michener

And we need Christians who don’t make others feel guilty (and don’t feel guilty themselves) when one of us follows a different passion than another. I read and write a lot. That’s what I do well. But that doesn’t mean anyone should feel guilty for not reading and writing as much as I do. You have your own gifts and calling. We have to be okay with other Christians doing certain good things better and more often than we do.

~ Kevin Deyoung

God gives much grace for great work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God gives grace for good work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

~ Harold Bloom

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

~ Paul C. Nagel

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

~ Paul C. Nagel

The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.

~ Jacob Grimm

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

~ Charles Murray

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling

~ Sunday Adelaja

I choose me bristles with prideYes, I doA broom for the shaftAnd a broom for the flumeThough I'm covered with soot From me 'ead to me toesA sweep knows 'e's welcomeWherever 'e goes

~ Richard M. Sherman

Calling is connection: Uncovering our calling is a deliberate choice to serve others and to make a difference in the world. Our calling is made manifest in service to others...it is paradoxical but true; we are more likely to receive the meaning and fulfillment we seek when we enable others to achieve the meaning and fulfillment they seek, as well.

~ David Shapiro

The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.

~ Karl Barth

We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.

~ Ravi Zacharias

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Don't differentiate between This is a job and This is what I'm doing for fun. It's all simultaneous.

~ Spike Jonze

If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.

~ Douglas Copeland

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

~ Geoff Dyer

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

~ Richard J. Foster

The layman need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.

~ A.w. Tozer

Teddy Roosevelt had relished every hour of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the dull thud he would experience upon returning to private life.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

The only Christian work is good work well done.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers