Work Quotes

Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience, the best among us do their greatest work when no one is present to bear witness.

~ Ken Poirot

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

~ Don Roff

All laws work for our good; therefore, we should know and observe them.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sloth may disguise itself as conscientious work and meet with various forms of public approval or success. But work that is not motivated by love for the life of the community, beyond the temporal and spatial confines of one's own small life, cannot free either worker or community from profound anxiety.

~ Ellen F. Davis

Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going.

~ Dee Dee Artner

Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.

~ Mark Twain

Work hard, persevere and help without hesitation to become an Asset instead of Liability.

~ Edwin Calingasan

My sincerest gratitude to every ass hole, horrible boss, and worthless piece of shit I've ever met for giving me new and endless material to work with and a way to earn a living exposing you.

~ Crystal Woods

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

~ Charles Dickens

We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I feel like a fraud. And I still sometimes find myself spoken over and discounted while men sitting next to me are not. But now I know how to take a deep breath and keep my hand up. I have learned to sit at the table.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Think personally, act communally.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Working is prayer for the likes of us,” his master often said. “It’s the way we commune with God.”“Then how does He respond to us?” Jahan had once asked, way back when he was younger.“By giving us more work, of course.

~ Elif Shafak

Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.

~ Arthur Miller

The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works

~ Sunday Adelaja

He tensed up at the thought of going back to work. Avoid stressful thoughts, he reminded himself. There was no need to rush his vacation thinking about such foul things as coming back home or going back to work. The vacation had only just begun and it was going to be a good one.

~ Jason Medina

There’s a reason you don’t have pictures of your work area at sweet home.

~ Santosh Inani

When you engage in work that you love, you are happy.

~ Debasish Mridha

And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious.

~ François Lelord

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

~ Toni Morrison

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

~ Ben Jonson

You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

~ Agatha Christie

When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.

~ Amit Kalantri

I didn't want to be educated. It wasn't the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn't. The spirit of the age among the people I knew manifested itself as general drift and idleness. We didn't want money. What for? We could get by, living off parents, friends or the State And if we were going to be bored, and we were usually bored, rarely being self-motivated, we could at least be bored on our own terms, lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine. I didn't want to work in a place where I couldn't wear my fur coat.

~ Hanif Kureishi

We don't choose our wildest dreams. They choose us.

~ Tama Kieves

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor.

~ Alexander Chee

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

~ John Smith

Arise and do thy sacred work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.

~ Janice Marturano

But work is life only when done in mindfulness. otherwise, one becomes life the person who lives as though dead. We need to light our own torch in order to carry on. But the life of each one of us is connected with the life of those around us. If we know how to live in mindfulness, if we know how to preserve and care for our own mind and heart then thanks to that our brothers and sisters will also know how to live in mindfulness.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

We must work for the good and commit ourselves to postures of global selflessness, even if we can't figure out all the details surrounding the foreign dictators, food shortages, and fair trade. We're called to lean in, to work as hard as we can toward the good, and then trust in God who says, 'The way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.' We're called to be witnesses of how God is at play in the world.

~ Holly Sprink

Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.

~ George Macdonald

When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story.

~ Shawn Lukas

I have learned to have pride in what I do.

~ Harley King

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

~ Sara Sheridan