Work Quotes

Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. Temple means... that a particular piece of ground is specially reserved, and marked off from the remainder of the land which is used either for agriculture or habitation... Similarly in divine worship a certain definite space of time is set aside from working hours and days... and like the space allotted to the temple, is not used, is withdrawn from all merely utilitarian ends.

~ Josef Pieper

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Values reflect what is important to the way you live and work.

~ Glenn C. Stewart

Life is a precious commodity, Charles. It’s time you achieved your full potential and learned the true value of things.” “You’re talking like a Stalinist!” I cried. “People don’t get jobs to achieve things and learn values! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever’s left over to buy themselves nice things that make them feel less bad about having jobs!

~ Paul Murray

A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If it has to be done, it must be best done.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The grace of service is the spirit of belonging.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Work is a form of service to God.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I will serve with all my might.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.

~ Tim Hiller

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

~ Marianne Williamson

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and whatpeople can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities,the result is boredom. But when thematch is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.

~ Daniel H. Pink

You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.

~ Ali Alja'bari

Explore the endless opportunities in life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can find your perfect job, create one.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can create your ideal job.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's hypocritical to expect a job based on a curriculum built out of companies that for whatever reason rejected you.

~ Daniel Marques

When someone speaks against a person its gossip, until the person isn't heard it's still a hearsay.

~ Joey Lawsin

If you are not happy with the work you do, change it

~ Anamika Mishra

And I will wait for Jarod to work for me. For free, cause if it's paid, it's work and not love, unless, of course he loves to work, in which case he’ll surely love working for me, because I love people who love to do that to love to do that.

~ Will Advise

You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Loving your work doesn’t mean finding a job you can tolerate for eight hours a day, but rather a job that gets you flying out of bed in the morning like a Jack Russell who just had a firecracker stuffed up his ass.

~ Ari Gold

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

~ Holly Gates

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

~ David Graeber

For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

~ Ernest Vincent Wright

Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder.

~ Alcurtis Turner

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

At its core, each vocation is a particular, unique instantiation of the father’s summons to the true homeland of the kingdom. The etymological root of the word ‘vocation’ points in this direction. The word is derived from the Latin verb “vocare” – “to call.” Thus, through the son the father calls each one of us home.

~ Mark Doherty