Work Quotes

You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk.

~ A.d. Posey

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And, for the gods sake, don't waste the whole day working! Make time for a bit of adventure dear. This life is only so long.

~ Adrastus Rood

We face a dark time in the history of God’s people . . . the forces of evil seem to be gathering for a colossal assault on the work of God in the world. In the darkest hour God can still revive His people, and by the Holy Spirit breathe new vigor and power into the body of Christ.

~ Billy Graham

The devil’s overriding goal is to block God’s work— and if he can convince you God doesn’t really love you, or that you can’t fully trust Him, then he has blocked God’s work in your life and achieved his goal.

~ Billy Graham

Do your work with honesty and integrity, and don’t compromise God’s moral standards. It may be difficult, but it’s far better to do right than to do wrong. God is with you, and He will not abandon you.

~ Billy Graham

Christians at work in the world are the only real spiritual light in the midst of great spiritual darkness. This places a tremendous responsibility on all of us.

~ Billy Graham

Any work done by a follower of Christ to the glory of God is “gold, silver, precious stones.” But if any follower of Christ works with any self-interest or personal ambition involved, it will be “wood, hay, and stubble” and will be burned.

~ Billy Graham

Many people who have lost jobs . . . find that this was God’s way of redirecting their lives.

~ Billy Graham

Often our self-esteem is tied to our work. In our culture, men and women often define themselves by the jobs they hold . . . But a person’s job tells you nothing about a person’s character or value.

~ Billy Graham

Jesus worked all His life. But the greatest work that Jesus did was not in the carpenter’s shop . . .His greatest work was achieved in those three dark hours on Calvary . . . dying for us.

~ Billy Graham

Calloused hands were the badge of the pioneer, while furrowed brows are the insignia of modern man.

~ Billy Graham

[Every] believer will receive a reward for his works. The New Testament teaches these rewards are called “crowns.” We will surely be surprised to note who receives the crowns and who doesn’t. The lowliest servant may sparkle with more jewels than the philanthropist who endowed the church and whose name is engraved on the plaque in the narthex.

~ Billy Graham

Work isn’t only earning a living, work gives us a sense of purpose and worth and opportunities for companionship.

~ Billy Graham

One of the Christian’s responsibilities in following Christ is to have a new attitude toward work. So many young people want Christ without responsibility . . . whatever work a Christian does . . . he should do his best.

~ Billy Graham

Think of working forever at something you love to do, for [the] one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.

~ Billy Graham

God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work.

~ Billy Graham

It takes grace to be a great soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace of service is the heart of belonging.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God gave us the grace and ability to work, because it is only through work we can resolve national issues.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You can do the required-work by grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May God’s grace abound to you for every good work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have enough grace for each day task.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

GRACE means God does the work. FAITH means I let Him.

~ Dr. Lewis W Gregory

The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.

~ Josef Pieper

Properly understood, the doctrine of sin means that believers are never as good as our true worldview should make us. Similarly, the doctrine of grace means as messed up their false worldview should make them.

~ Timothy J. Keller

God didn't bring us together. Our jobs brought us together. That's not divine intervention, that's just life.

~ Tiffany Quay Tyson

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty. But he would be mistaken. Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or a pine box. My habits and the unchanging season sustain me. Evil is what questions and disrupts.

~ Wallace Stegner

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, I am a mechanic. At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

~ A. Ashley Straker

He realised he was in a chair. The world was white and blurry in half his vision, and it took him a few moments to realise a sheet of paper was stuck to his face.

~ A. Ashley Straker

Your commitment is to action alone, not to the fruits of action. That must never be: you must not be motivated by the fruits of your actions. Yet you must not become attached to inaction. Perform your duties as a warrior and cast off attachment, Arjuna, indifferent alike whether you gain or gain not. This indifference is called yoga. Action is far lower than the rule of understanding, Arjuna. Seek refuge in wisdom. They are unworthy who are moved only by gain. Lesson Two, verses 47-49

~ Bhagvad Gita

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.

~ Emil M. Cioran

When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it.

~ Majid Kazmi

Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

~ Amit Kalantri

I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist. I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?I don't know, but it must be better than work.

~ Shel Silverstein

Life experience is the new work experience.

~ Richie Norton