Work Quotes - Page 21

Thinking is free, planning is also free, but action taking is not free; you have a price to pay. Success is not luck; it demands work... hard work of course!

You can only gain the benefit of something when you invest and spend time

People would want to get safe and come to Christ because they see the evidence in your life not because you quote the scriptures to them.

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.

Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is "to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.

The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you

It’s either you are converting your time or not

WE MAY FEEL...BUT WE DON'TWe may feel the need to change employment, but we don’t.We may feel the need to start a specific project, but we don’t.We may feel the need to pursue higher education, but we don’tWe may feel the need to heal a broken relationship, but we don’t.We may feel the need to work to improve our spiritual lives, but we don’t.We may feel the need to take steps toward a healthier physical or emotional life for ourselves and/or our family, but again, we don’t.(This list could likely go on for eternity.)The desire for progression is innate, but the problem we face is that the actual act of progression is also a choice.Without embracing our inherent need for progress, for positive growth and/or change, we’ll still go on living....But at what cost?

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.

He who shuns the millstone shuns the meal.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

You will do extraordinary splendor.

A product is supposed to be what you are intentionally producing with your life at least every month.

Bring relevance to the people before teaching them to be believers

We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products from China that are produced by people earning less than a dollar an hour, and grant their country most-favored-nation status (political contributions notwithstanding), we are deciding to make American workers who must earn the minimum wage compete with them. I am not suggesting that we close the doors to China or to Mexico, but I am suggesting that we look very carefully at the web of international relationships that we are creating. At the very minimum, we should understand that we have two choices in our country: we can raise world living standards by exporting those standards, or we can lower living standards- not only the world’s but also our own- by deciding that it is acceptable for the products of exploited labor to enter this country.

Continue to diligently work and God’s principles will work in your life as it worked in Ruth’s life

We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding.

No work is so important you have to do it.

Often our self-esteem is tied to our work. In our culture, men and women often define themselves by the jobs they hold . . . But a person’s job tells you nothing about a person’s character or value.

Work is not about survival alone

Cars are empowered by either petrol or diesel or gas. That is their fuel. I don't care whether you want to pour pepper soup or orange juice into that car... It can't work! You can't live without intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and move forward

In a job you trade your freedom and time for money.

A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.

Use your passion to create a job.

At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitude. I was later to find that I had erratic low blood oxygen levels after almost a decade of high altitude work.

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.

I worked for a menial’s hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have willingly paid.

How prudently we relate to our work determines whether we will be raised to a higher level of financial prosperity or not

Investor confidence rests on leaders who deliver.

I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

Uplifting God’s Kingdom on earth should be our life’s mandate as believers

Losing your job gives you access to time

My worth is not based on the ‘work of my hands’ despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am the ‘work of God’s hands.

It is important that any value you add to yourself should be converted to tangible products that could benefit humanity.

God has taken you from something in order to you to something.

My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

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.

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?

You can have your wishes but you must work.

Life isn't about being perfect, it's about being perfected.

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Nobody will achieve anything just by dreaming.

When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on the earth.

Life is given to bring the will of God on earth

No amount of service we do can impress God, only our service to ordinary people can

The world will never know you because you were not bold and did not take a risk

Money is made only from time well converted.

Times will change for the better when you change.

If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

To be an effective time user, you must make sure you are spending your time on only what is important.

Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives