Work Quotes

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

~ Don Roff

Ninety percent of my work is crap,” he continued. “Another nine percent is mediocre, and then there are those rare gems that are actually useable.

~ Olivia Cunning

Even, if we aren’t rewarded, we will do the good work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

And what impels him to repeat this process at every single lesson, and, with the same remorseless insistence, to make his pupils copy it without the least alteration? He sticks to this traditional custom because he knows from experience that the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating. The meditative repose in which he performs them gives him that vital loosening and equability of all his powers, that collectedness and presence of mind, without which no right work can be done.

~ Eugen Herrigel

Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

~ Idries Shah

The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator.

~ Habeeb Akande

Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. Even I have lied about writing. I have told people that writing this book has been like brushing away dirt from a fossil. What a load of shit. It has been like hacking away at a freezer with a screwdriver.

~ Amy Poehler

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

~ Michael J. Kannengieser

No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The only work for success is hard work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am determined to do my very best.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I resolve to do my very best in everything.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.

~ Lorii Myers

May God continue to grant you more grace for your work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan or command a work of genius at will. But do we give sufficient thought to the nurture of the young investigator, to providing the right atmosphere and conditions of work and full opportunity for development? It is these things that foster invention and discovery.

~ J.r.d. Tata

As Edison is credited with saying, Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!

~ Mark Batterson

Opportunities are like night owls. They like to streak naked and howl at the moon. A lot of success in life comes down to luck. So put yourself in a position to get lucky. Because you know what happens if you don't go out? Nothing.

~ Ari Gold

A real treasure becomes such only after it's been desperately sought after.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse/Of looks and smiles, for smiles from Reason flow,/To brutes denied, and are of Love the food, Love not the lowest end of human life. For not to irksome toil, but to delight/ He made us, and delight to reason join'd.

~ John Milton

Dreams are horrible, to don't talk about nightmares they are more often. But there is always one gift from a person which you know is dead, that's how it works and it will continue to work.

~ Deyth Banger

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

~ David Viscott

I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate periods of work and sleep in the laboratory. He had no hobby, cared for no sport or amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene. There can be no doubt that, if he had not married later a woman of exceptional intelligence, who made it the one object of her life to preserve him, he would have died many years ago from consequences of sheer neglect. So great and uncontrollable was his passion for work.

~ Nikola Tesla

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

~ Anthony M. Esolen

This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.

~ Ryū Murakami

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

~ Frédéric Bastiat

All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward was just the chance to work your ass off.

~ Don J. Snyder

The big guys who ran things didn't want you thinking or feeling. It slowed down production. They wanted you scared and working so you wouldn't bump up against the truth--life could be fun. Yup, they wanted you scared. They wanted you grim. They wanted you madly cranking out Barbie dolls or Post Toasties or Xerox, or they wanted you overworked and underpaid at teaching so you could at least feel smart, and they wanted you to keep having kids so you'd have to keep working at whatever job you were stuck in and not have time to think or feel or, if you did, you certainly wouldn't have time to do anything about it, or even get close to the big fun, the fun that belonged only to them. And then they wanted your kids to hop on the same treadmill.

~ Bill Ripley

You are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life's challenges: you get to find out that you're capable of being far more than you ever thought possible.

~ Karen Salmonsohn

Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived.

~ Jill Telford

We came to this earth to labour and work for increase, which would lead to possession.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Make time to be still.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness, honor, and great estate,For those who patiently work and wait.

~ John Townsend Trowbridge

Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.

~ Paul Gitwaza

If you enjoy being at work more than being at home it doesn't mean you are a workaholic, it simply means you are in love with your work and you worship it.

~ Honeya

The heart of service is grace of belonging.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.

~ Leland Ryken

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

~ Josef Pieper