Work Quotes - Page 25

An ounce of wisdom can earn you a ton of gold.

The only instrument through which time could be converted to yield greatness is the instrumentality of work.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

If you must make your time productive, then begin to view time in its most urgent form; in seconds and in minutes.

If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life, you will regret it.

Our identity as Christians is a purpose-driven life

Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you have just 100 dollars and He is asking you to execute a 400 million dollar project. Have you reached to the point that you consider going further will make no sense? Have you reached the point where you asked God are you sure you are still with me?I just found myself in that Junction now. Turning back ....to realise I have gone too far for Him to forsake me. Moving forward I heard the voice saying ...be still and know that I am your God. Giving up.....Couldn't find it in my dictionary.Moral of the lesson. God cannot give you an assignment that is equal to your pocket. If it suits your pocket it is definitely not from God. Remember God will not take glory where nothing happen.

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

Life is all about purpose

Quality in your work reflects your commitment towards it.

To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too. That is why most people had all the time but did nothing with it. They died leaving behind no invention or product that they could be remembered for.

The only way to saturate the earth with your products like Steve Jobs is to invest your time doing what you were born to do.

Every service is a product of double honor

You are in charge of your life and how great you become is up to you.

But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.

There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work.

Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is also the correct application of knowledge.

The Fairy Queen has sent you to do brave deeds in this world. That High City that you see is in another world. Before you climb the path to it and hang your shield on its wall, go down into the valley and fight the dragon that you were sent to fight.

Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care ofyourself? You bet. But a person who’s willing to work and pay their own waycan at least take pride in that even if they can’t take pride in anything else.

You must invest quality time in your land to become great

The secret of all greatness is to not allow time diminish without converting it into a product of greatness.

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.

He who want to be great must first be a servant.

Give that your one life your best input so that it could yield the best output in the form of products that will impact your world positively.

I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semi-valid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you're lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but second and third chances, like second and third marriages, can be dicey propositions, and they don't come with guarantees.... The question then is this: How does a person keep from living the wrong life?

Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to the news that an employee had spent three months devising a supermarket promotion based on an offer of free stickers of cartoon characters called the Fimbles. Why had the grown-ups so churlishly abdicated their responsibilities? Were there not more important ambitions to be met before Death showed himself on the horizon in his hooded black cloak, his scythe slung over his shoulder?

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself and one for helping others

Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you

The best way to convert your time into products is through the power of isolation.

Refusing to forgive never made anyone feel better about anything. All you are doing is holding on to feelings of upset, anger and jealousy and that can never be good. I once read that being angry and unforgiving towards someone else is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

To make plans and not make good use of them is like “betraying your success helpmate” after getting to know him. Make plans, get prepared, but let the work be done!

Do interesting things and interesting things will happen to you.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!

Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci’s. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I’d like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

Only when you work hard things work for you

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

We have to discover the essence of our creation for us to carry out our purpose as believers

Believe that fighter in you is stronger than anything you will ever face.

Time must be converted into product

A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.

You may work with 100% capacity every day and may not be seen by anybody for recommendation. This does not mean you should give up! The day you will decide to work at 40% may be the day you'll be seen by the person who is meant to recommend you for higher profile opportunities!

You must be a servant if you want to be great in life

There is enough work for everyone. May you find your purpose and passionately live it.

To build yourself is to add value to your life

If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.

Brotherly love should be our number one principle as believers

Time is a running factor; once it goes, it cannot be reclaimed

Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.

When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

The nature of God is that we welcome and celebrate one another