Work Quotes - Page 75

I wish you could stop wasting your life to fulfill other people’s dreams.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

Actions undertaken in anger, only result in pain, sorrow, and regret.

May God continue to give us strength for our daily work.

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.

Make sure your sphere of influence is a piece of Heaven

Glorifying people is the most noble act

You must know what you do with your time if you must become great in this life.

Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!

Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people.

Greatness is not greater than you. You have total control over greatness. You can decide to be great and it will happen.

Pleasure” is different from “happiness”. It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or may not come from sin; However, happiness is always divine and comes from fulfillment!

By the work one knows the workman.

Use time to be a seeker of the Kingdom

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.

I was a really good waitress. Waitressing takes a certain gusto. You need a good memory and an ability to connect with people fast. You have to learn how to treat the kitchen as well as you treat the customers. You have to figure out which crazy people to listen to and which crazy people to ignore. I loved waiting tables because when you cashed out at the end of the night your job was truly over. You wiped down your section and paid out your busboy and you knew your work was done.

Rich people do not work for money, they devote themselves to the work they love and do not wait for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but keep working passionately until the end of their lives

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work

You can multiply your life through work, not jobs

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There’s this and there’s that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him’— here Caleb’s mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers— ‘whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn’t do well what he undertook to do.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

You can produce as many products as you want in life if you just apply the principle of time conversion.

This generation does not understand the wealth of time. No wonder there are only a few superstars and great men emerging from this generation.

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal do not beg do not grovel. Take courage join hands stand beside us fight with us.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

Will that be all?” I asked the pimply faced teen who ogled my exposed legs as if in heat. My pen tapped impatiently on the notepad while I waited for him to look up. Slowly his dull grey eyes roved over my body and a limp smile drew up his thin, crusted lips making him look more weasel than human. “Yep. That’d be it,” his cheerful, adolescent voice cracked.“Great,” I mumbled, walking back behind the counter.

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.

Your ability to overcome distractions will determine how long you can stay in solitude.

Perfect study is the key to being effective in the land of your calling

You can become great by multiplying yourself through time conversion into different products but that will only be possible if you understand the value of time.

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

Dedicate time to yourself and do things that help you grow

But if I'm useless only because I haven't been properly educated, is that my fault?

Work out the details in achieving your dreams

Holiness is as much about what you do on a Monday morning on the factory floor as it is about what you do on a Sunday morning in a church gathering. Holiness is as much about the kind of neighbour you are as it is about the kind of church member you are. It is as much about who you are when you are holding a steering wheel as who you are when you are holding a Bible.

Work in such a way that your work will glorify the Lord

Don’t be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries

It doesn’t matter what your area of calling is, if you could invest quality time in it, then, you will be sure to produce the quality amount of products.

Relationships are built on trust.