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Quotes About Work

God's work does not begin when we show up; it is already well underway. A big part of our job is to slow down and observe where He is already at work and join Him there.12
~ John Dr. Fuder
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
~ John Dryden
I told her how I thought you could always revise your life, how you could work and work on it, finesse the details, see if what you're saying is what you wanted to be saying.
~ John Dufresne
that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day. "Most people are liberals when they drink their morning coffee and conservatives after a hard day's work,
~ John Dunning
Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
~ Henrik Ibsen
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
~ Henry Ford
I don't spend my life getting dressed! I have to put clothes on during the day; I don't get dressed up at all when I'm working. I'll wear jeans, or something very simple.
~ Iris Apfel
Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
~ J. G. Farrell
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.
~ Khalil Gibran
My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.
~ Mario Van Peebles
Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
~ Peter Drucker
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
~ Pierre Trudeau
Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.
~ Richard Livingstone
Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.
~ Rob Wittman
I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.
~ Cecelia Ahern
... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.
~ Arthur Miller
While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.
~ Catherine Deneuve
Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person
~ Edwin Land
As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
~ Elayne Boosler
I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.
~ Mike Birbiglia
Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.
~ David Boreanaz