Work Quotes - Page 8

What you do with your time on a daily basis determines what values will be added to your life

In life, everyone must decide in what area of life he or she wants to be great.

If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.

Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

The Kingdom of God is about peace, love, joy and righteousness

Sadly, so many people stand and watch their life melt away every day without taking advantage of it to produce something of worth.

A wise man loves any kind of work, be it spiritual, physical or intellectual

Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.

Life is a race against disappearing time

When a person travels through a few years with an organization, or with a partnership, or any other kind of working association, he leaves a 'wake' behind in these two areas, task and relationship: what did he accomplish and how did he deal with people?

Everyone, no matter what kind of job he or she has, fantasizes about freaking out at work. How many corporate drones, stuck in a boring staff meeting, have had the sudden urge to jump on top of the conference table and start screaming obscenities? Strip off their clothes? Kiss the woman or man next to them? We all have. How many employees joke about shooting the boss or blowing the place up? I’m not suggesting we do any of these things, mind you, but let’s not kid ourselves; we all have a little murder in our heart.

Be a source of motivation wherever you are as a believer

The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone. Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot.

To build yourself is to add value to your life

Any work not executed honestly, fails to fulfill its objective.

And I will wait for Jarod to work for me. For free, cause if it's paid, it's work and not love, unless, of course he loves to work, in which case he’ll surely love working for me, because I love people who love to do that to love to do that.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

The only limitation we have is the limitation of the mind

The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger. ... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated why it's just as good as sex.

It’s only when you find God that you can discover your calling

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.

Be conscious of your actions daily

Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

When you invest more time into something than others, you become the best among equals.

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set standards...!

If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it.

As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers will differ.

Life is the totality of time

To know what to do with time is to convert a day and to convert a day is to produce a product.

If you want it, work for it.

A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday.

Success is determined by how best you can utilize your time

God is a God of glory

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

It's all in the day's work.

Work is the province of cattle.

I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.

A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.

The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products.

Do interesting things and interesting things will happen to you.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

There’s a reason you don’t have pictures of your work area at sweet home.

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.

Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence.

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.

For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

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

We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally. Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

Losing your job gives you the material from which life is made

Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotional work in relationships. And most men, even those who wholeheartedly support gender equality in the workforce, still believe that emotional work is female labor. Most men continue to uphold the sexist decree that emotions have no place in the work world and that emotional labor at home should be done by females.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point is there in leaving some books behind any more than bottles, clothes, or cheap jewellry?