Work Quotes

Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It’s pouring out, it keeps diminishing.

What you work for, you will receive.

Purposefully dedicating time into developing yourself is one of the keys to being effective in life

The only wealth every human comes to the earth with is the wealth of time.

Never ever work! Do everything for fun. Remember, life is for joy!

If knowledge is lacking, your destruction is inevitable. Hosea 4:6

Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so many years without self-improvement

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly quietly without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath you would stop and take a breath you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.

I will wholeheartedly perform my holy duties.

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.

Thinking about the future is the worst way of thinking about the future. Working on your future is the best way of thinking about your future.

The death of a dream is the day that you stop believing in the work it takes to get there.

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

I hate when people say something is not their job or that something isn't possible. We all say these things, sure, but some people actually believe they don't have to work beyond what is written in their job description or that they don't have to try to reach those who seemingly cannot be reached.

The Awakening Land" p628-629 Hardship and work, that's what his mother always harped on. Once when he had refused to work on the lot, she had said, "You're going to live longer than I do, Chancey. Watch for all kinds of new-fangled notions to take away folks' troubles without their having to work. That's what folks today want and that's what will ruin them more than anything else." Could there be something after all in this hardship-and-work business, he pondered. He had thought hardship and work the symptoms of a pioneer era, things of the past. He believed that his generation had outlived and outlawed them, was creating a new life of comfort, ease and peace. And yet war, the cruelest hardship of all, war between brothers, was on them today like a madness. Did it mean that the need for strength and toughness was to be always with them; that the farther they advanced, the more brilliant and intelligent they became, the more terrible would be the hardship that descended upon them, and the more crying the need of hardihood to be saved.

There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.

We glorify God when we encourage and bless His creation

If you knew that your time is your life, you would protect it as much as you protect your life.

Ýou can do the work by God’s grace.

It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

As Christians, we should live a Kingdom-driven life

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth. It is true to say that nothing for the scientific scholar is comparable to the things that he has discovered. Indeed, it would be difficult to find an investigator willing to exchange the paternity of a scientific conquest for all the gold on earth. And if there are some who look to science as a way of acquiring gold instead of applause from the learned, and the personal satisfaction associated with the very act of discovery, they have chosen the wrong profession.

Your calling is in what you often think about

God promised to bless the works of our hands. If you do not work, what is God going to bless you for?

Time is a rare resource and must be invested wisely

Joblessness sets you free

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

To see time and life correctly, you must realize that whenever you waste a second, you are wasting life.

Time is a diminishing factor

Man is the carrier of God’s image

To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products. Begin to invest your time into your purpose and calling.

However you see the world, realize that you can be successful if you do the work. Being positive and doing nothing will generate nothing. Being negative and fighting everything that cross your path can still lead to success.

Losing your job makes you come face to face with the greatest wealth

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Employment is the greatest dream killer

While I am busy with little things I am not required to do greater things.

The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being.

Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. And you know what? In the whole silly business, the only thing that really matters is passion. It comes and it goes. At first it just comes to you free of charge, and you don't understand, and you waste it. And then it becomes a thing to nurture.

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

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

If you desire to be productive with your time, you should select a maximum of two things that are your highest priority, and plan time to work on them.

The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.

We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally.

Motivation overcomes self-limitations.

My whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me.

You have to do what you love to do not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

To be relevant, you need to be purposeful

It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten another’s dull task. What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchanges of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

Value time and convert it into greatness by investing it into learning and researching all that you can.

Face it: as much as you’d like to be, you’re not perfect. Mistakes will be made in both your freelance career and life. Instead of fearing mistakes, remind yourself that there’s plenty to learn from them. If nothing else, you’ll learn that a mistake doesn’t mean the end of the world. In fact, it might be the beginning of a new one.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.