Work Quotes - Page 20

You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

I know the value of my time!

The value of your work is not in the dollar. It's in your word.

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty

Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

When you have the power of time, you can take possession of your time, there is nothing you cannot become.

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness

When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will not have to work hard and sweat it out

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

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

The great souls work with great passion.

Fellowship and interaction with people opens up God’s heart to us

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.

If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us

You must learn to see everything around yourself as a resources, your opportunities, and turn them into your weapons to get them working in your favor, in order to achieve your goal

One of the most effective ways of changing the way people think is to change the way they worship.

I will never give up on my dreams. I have the patient to wait and work hard for its fulfillment.

Begin to lay hold of every minute of your life and convert it into something of value to benefit the world. Never allow any of your time to be wasted on the frivolities of life.

Value-added time produces multiplication and production

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.

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?

Be optimistic and don’t ever get discouraged or give up no matter how vain it may seem initially

Many a man wants glory but fails to work.

If you ever desire to gain the mastery over any skill and talent, then, you must convert as much time as Sebastian Bach converted.

You can be great in any area of life, just learn to convert time into added value and tangible products.

Live in a way that helps you lean into your fears, make a difference and live without regret.

Vocation” comes from the Latin vocare (to call) and means the work a man is called to by God.There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice of God rather than of society, say, or the superego, or self-interest.The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need to do and (b) that the world needs to have done. If you find your work rewarding, you have presumably met requirement (a), but if your work does not benefit others, the chances are you have missed requirement (b). On the other hand, if your work does benefit others, you have probably met requirement (b), but if most of the time you are unhappy with it, the chances are you have not only bypassed (a) but probably aren’t helping your customers much either.Neither the hair shirt nor the soft berth will do. The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s hunger meet.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

Do what you want that works.

For you to be successful in your promised land, you must study the land

When you invest in life, you are being fruitful and productive

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensible to the preservation and justification of existence in society. Professional activity is a source of special satisfaction if it is a freely chosen one — if, that is to say, by means of sublimation, it makes possible the use of existing inclinations, of persisting or constitutionally reinforced instinctual impulses. And yet, as a path to happiness, work is not highly prized by men. They do not strive after it as they do after other possibilities of satisfaction. The great majority of people only work under the stress of necessity, and this natural human aversion to work raises most difficult social problems.

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the peculiarities of his nature, becomes absorbed in doing something that is personal, useful and beautiful. Word of his activities is carried over the walls.

Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them.

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

I believe in solving social ills with business skills.

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.

Take hold of your passing time and convert it into living your dreams.

The compensation we receive from employment is not enough for the time being wasted

There's a difference between waiting with patient expectation, and waiting because you never know what God will do. If you don't know how God thinks or what God wants to do in your life, read the Bible. When you know what God wants you to do, go out there and do it and see God work his wonderful mission through you.The whole time you thought you were waiting on God, but the whole time God was WAITING ON YOU.

Discovering yourself is the major key to being successful

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Some managers hire people they're excited to work with. I prefer to hire people I'm excited to dominate.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Time is the raw material for creation

With all your energy and strength, chase your dreams.

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.

The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.

Work without love is slavery.

Work with joy.

Your life was meant to be used to fulfill your purpose and destiny.

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

I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to be working, and useful, or have a job of some kind, in order to be happy. Otherwise they are neurotically barking, scratching, or tearing up the sofa. A working dog needs to work. And I am a working dog.

Whatever you have chosen to be your priority, set a time to it and be focused on achieving it.

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.

If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.

There is an overflowing grace, for every great work.