Work Quotes - Page 49

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research

Create/add value to your life on a daily basis

Our attitude to others dictate God’s attitude to us

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction

Manage the inn, Jane, save it. Have a mission in life. Discover that work worth doing is about more than profit and toil. It's about using the gifts and ability you've been given to serve your fellow man and please your Maker.

What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.

Don’t allow time to while away but take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.

Your complaint should be a pointer to what God wants you to do

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

You need to invest your time on earth

When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

When you are able to create values in yourself or in others then you have won the race.

I can’t even believe the world we live in. My parents raised me to work hard, not to ever expect any handouts in life – and to treat people with respect.

Most people do not invest their time because they do not see need to do that.

80% of people work for money. The rest are called successful people.

Rich people do not work for money, they are doing what they like to do

Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members

You are moving in the opposite direction when your life is about survival only

The incommensurability between the modern economic system and the people who staff it explains why modern workers have so often been depicted as 'cogs' in the larger 'machinery' of industrial civilization; for while the practical rationalization of enterprise does require workers to be consistent, predictable, precise, uniform, and even to a certain extent creative, it does not really require them to be persons, that is, to live examined lives, to grow, to develop character, to search for truth, to know themselves, etc.

Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities.

Develop solutions using biblical principles to help solve the problems of the people

It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically

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.

Improvements enable adapting to new situations.

The Great Wall of Facebook:Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.Build your wall carefully by answering this question:What are you building your wall around?

DREAMSNever by many are marvels wrought,By one or two are the dreams first caught. . .The dreamer must toil when the odds are great,Must stand to failure and work and wait.Must keep his faith though he stand alone,Until the truth of his dream is known.

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

Your greatness is directly proportional to how much time you are ready to invest into fulfilling your purpose.

It is the time that delivers greatness to people .

Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.

...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)...

If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.

When everyone lives only for self, life doesn't work.

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.

When you lose your job, you gain ownership of your life

The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while the other did not.

The "layman" need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.

I must go on living. And, though itmay be childish of me, I can't go on insimple compliance. From now on I muststruggle with the world. I thought thatMother might well be the last of thosewho can end their lives beautifully andsadly, struggling with no one, neitherhating nor betraying anyone. In theworld to come there will be no room forsuch people. The dying are beautiful,but to live, to survive – those thingssomehow seem hideous andcontaminated with blood.

Most leaders are indispensable but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved.

Life is all about conversion.

For your life to count, you need to begin to live for others

Let your ways and actions be in honor of Christ

Time is the raw material from which money is made.

I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhaustion and my unhappiness had made me hate and resent everything.

As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our children’s health. I am not mollified by the alums of my daughter’s school who return to tell everyone that the rigor of high school prepared them for college, making their first year easier than they’d anticipated.If they make it that far.

The primary thing that determines how effective your life is how you carry out your calling

To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.

Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.

You must live a life of self-consciousness always

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.

Joyfully we undertake our daily work.

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

Do not allow your life to keep pouring out and reducing without converting it to tangible products.

If you have no job, help is needed.

People can easily forget how fast you did your work, but can hardly forget how well you did it.

Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose.

So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.