Quotes About Work

If you want to tap into your discernment potential, work in your areas of strength.

Lazy people don't succeed.

You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me—most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.

Reward only finished work: It's good to praise effort, but you should never reward it. Give

Muy a menudo los empleados esperan ser evaluados en base al esfuerzo que están poniendo en el trabajo, en vez de lo que están logrando.

Believe while others are doubting. Plan while others are playing. Study while others are sleeping. Decide while others are delaying. Prepare while others are daydreaming. Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing. Save while others are wasting. Listen while others are talking. Smile while others are frowning. Commend while others are criticizing. Persist while others are quitting.

The only thing worse than not having a way to capture great ideas, and thus missing them, is capturing a bad idea and trying to make it work.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it." Because

It doesn't matter what job you do or what position you obtain; you will have limits. That's just the way life is. When

Strive for excellence. Elbert Hubbard said, "The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The problem was that I carried around with me a tendency to feel that other people's respect for me would vanish if what I did was second rate. And while I accept that this "perfectionism" is likely to stimulate the production of better work, it doesn't, unfortunately, go hand in hand with a relaxed and happy attitude to life.

Life is hard and it can be made easier only by working hard.

Nothing in life is easy. Don't expect things to be given to you. Go out and achieve them. Good things come to those who work for them.

Pray regularly, work hard, laugh much, let go of every mistake in the best way by learning from them.

I hate being unappreciated for my work and stolen from.

Just stop, seriously. I'm done with you. Stop trying to come back. Its not going to work anymore.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Always do more than is required of you.

Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community.

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.