Quotes About Work

The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.