Quotes About Work

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

We do not always allow ourselves to work through pain. More often than not, we think pain is a signal that we must stop, rather than find its source. Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth. In this context, a body in pain is a soul in longing.

My paycheck is so small it has an inferiority complex.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

In die ersten Augenblicke des neuen Tages gehören nicht eigene Pläne und Sorgen, auch nicht der Übereifer der Arbeit, sondern Gottes befreiende Gnade, Gottes segnende Nähe.

Stille vor Gott bedarf der Arbeit und der Übung. Sie bedarf des täglichen Mutes, sich Gottes Wort auszusetzen und von ihm richten zu lassen, bedarf der täglichen Frische, sich an Gottes Liebe zu freuen.

Es ist eine seltsame Tatsache, daß gerade Christen und Theologen ihre Arbeit oft für so wichtig und dringlich halten, daß sie sich darin durch nichts unterbrechen lassen wollen. Sie meinen damit einen Dienst zu tun, und verachten dabei den ›krummen und doch geraden Weg‹ Gottes.

Even pleasure itself is a toil.

Every soul is engaged in a great work-the labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The world is a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And each is a prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear these bars from their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired into the darkness, which becomes lighted by that presence

Man i s given by Nature, a gift, and that gift is the privilege of labor. Through labor he learns all things.

It's already a good thing to have done a job you did enjoy at one point. That's pretty rare.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

The Lord, even at the [5] time of the Pharaohs, had this right, for in Scripture He says to this monarch: "And therefore have I raised you, that I may show MY POWER in you, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth."314 Century has followed on century since the Most High has spoken those words, and since then His conduct has undergone no [10] change, for He is always using His creatures as instruments to carry on His work in souls.

Henri Nouwen once told the story of a research professor who was always complaining about interruptions in his work, until one day he came to the realization that interruptions were his work.

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

In Bede's great work they saw a golden age in which every minster had once been a model Benedictine community,

it is hard to discredit the idea that he worked on Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care,

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.