Work Quotes

Work therefore is the paramount key to discovering yourself.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness

~ Steven Magee

Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you.

~ Tomoko Yamashita

His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.

~ Carol Shields

There are four stages to a person’s career:In Stage 1 you are enthusiastic about your work, but inexperienced (start of your career).In Stage 2 you are both enthusiastic about your work and have gained experience (top of your career).In Stage 3 you’re tired of your work, but you are also still competent/experienced (maintenance stage).In Stage 4 you are sick of your work, and because you haven’t been motivated to keep up with your profession, you are now, once again, inexperienced relative to the state-of-the-art in your field (end of career).

~ Clifford Cohen

Maybe I’ll never be able to figure out what I’m passionate about. But when I choose something, it has to be something that when I wake up it’s the first thing I think about, and it’s also the last thing I think about before I go to sleep. I read about other people and how much they love their jobs—like, how they just want to do it all the time and it doesn’t feel like work because they love it so much. I want that to happen to me.

~ Maria Malonzo

Lovely as it would be to live off a trust fund and have nothing more taxing to think about than where your next hot stone massage was coming from, it's essential for all human beings to have a purpose. There's no honour in boasting “I don't work, dahling...” If you're not stretching yourself, discovering where your gifts lie, expressing your creativity, or enriching the lives of others, what are you for?

~ Rosie Blythe

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

~ Maureen Corrigan

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said It is the trade entering his body.

~ Annie Dillard

Be true to what naturally interests you - and be brave enough to turn an obsession into a profession.

~ Shelly Branch

Without labor nothing prospers.

~ Sophocles

It’s your willingness and commitment which can set everything right for you more than anything else.

~ Vishal Ostwal

Quality in your work reflects your commitment towards it.

~ Yogesh Chauhan

Do interesting things and interesting things will happen to you.

~ John Hegarty

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work youbelieve in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you willfind happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

~ Dale Carnegie

Wrong Turn 1 and 2 are pretty interesting films, but they need little more work on special effects!

~ Deyth Banger

That drinking thing, the night before an early morning start, I actually think it helps the productivity in some ways (as long as it's not spirits) it gives you that I don't give a fuck attitude, more relaxed, I'm getting away with it after all, I had a life last night, and now I may be hungover, but I had that secret world that you didn't have, and that you tried to take away from me, want to take away from me. But I still got that beer buzz. And I'll do it again, tomorrow night too. I'll never surrender. And when I'm working, I'll be thinking about it. Those moments of mine, truly mine, that you can never have or take away from me.

~ Robert Black

…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Why should anyone, in the name of caste, be considered lowly or be made to do a mean job?. If all in the country are given education, can there exist a caste for doing mean work? It is not because of lack of education that those people are constrained to do contemptible work and are considered lowly?

~ Periyar E.v. Ramasamy

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there.

~ Indira Gandhi

God has hidden in each and every one of us so many abilities, gifts and resources that could only be activated by work.

~ Sunday Adelaja

God has a habit of using people, their gifts, and their resources to carry out His plans. In fact, we were created to be God’s deputies, doing His work on earth.

~ David Jeremiah

His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

~ Jill Briscoe

Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession.

~ Timothy J. Keller

If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE

~ Fela Durotoye

I’m just saying that once that have an excuse, people will do anything. They do what they are told, and they take their money and they think it’s all okay because it’s just their job, while their real self is what happens after work, when they’re bouncing a baby on the knee, or writing poems about snowflakes or whatever.

~ Paul Murray

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.

~ Mitch Albom

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.

~ Mitch Albom

I stayed with him for three days, and he then asked: ‘Do you know any craft by which to make your living?’ I told him: ‘I am a lawyer, a scientist, a scribe, a mathematician and a calligrapher.’ ‘There is no market for that kind of thing here,’ he replied. ‘No one in this city has any knowledge of science or of writing and their only concern is making money.’ ‘By God,’ I said, ‘I know nothing apart from what I have told you.

~ Anonymous

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

~ Russell Kirk

You can find fulfillment in your work, work with all your heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Most of your time is spent in doing tasks which barely contribute to the results. The tasks which keep you busy and engaged instead favouring your efforts. Not everything that you do is important. Just a fraction of it is.

~ Vishal Ostwal

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

~ Bernard Meltzer

If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.

~ Ari Gold

if you rest at work, you will work at rest

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

~ C.j. Langenhoven