Quotes About Work

When I say you don't have to explain what you're going to do with your life, I'm not suggesting you lounge around whining about how difficult it is. I'm suggesting you apply yourself in directions for which we have no accurate measurement. I'm talking about work. And love.

That job and the fifteen others I had before I graduated college were my own, personal "educational opportunities." They changed my life for the better, though it took me a while to understand their worth.

Your sense of despair about the meaning of your work sustains itself only if you believe the narrowest version of the story—the one that assumes your contribution to the greater good can be measured by only one result.

You loathe yourself, and yet you're consumed by the grandiose ideas you have about your own importance. You're up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.

It's that the work you do each day matters. Even if it's work that seems invisible. Even if it's work that doesn't lead to the outcome you hoped for. Even if others attempt to undo your work.

Your sense of despair about the meaning of your work sustains itself only if you believe the narrowest version of the story—the one that assumes your contribution to the greater good can be measured by only one result. But it can't. You know that.

It was only then, when I humbly surrendered, that I was able to do the work I needed to do.

A klienti bývají málokdy násilníci. Možná je víc násilí v bytech zamilovaných dvojic než v t?ch, kde pracují prostitutky.

I'm content with my role, Mr. Tung. I have no ambitions. All I ask is for honest work killing your kind, and to be left alone to handle my affairs.

Sometimes even the most highborn must swab out their own toilets.

But I had to work, so I could not go to the wedding. It doesn't matter, all marriages are the same, more or less.

Gujarat is the only state in India where people tend to respect you more if you have a business than if you are in service.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was... He says that more men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him...

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

It's hard getting away from the office when you work from home.

That's the trouble with other work-from-home types… sometimes they're actually working.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work, or daytime television.

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul, the work of the soul, and good for either, the work of the other.

America is the land of dreamers and doers, where the tomorrows give promise and strength to those who dare to look ahead, work and have faith.

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them and see his fellows with impartial eye afar, for half his days, he is esteemed a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods, he is esteemed industrious and enterprising — making earth bald before its time.