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Quotes About Work

No dejes apagar el entusiasmo, virtud tan valiosa como necesaria; trabaja, aspira, tiende siempre hacia la altura
~ Ruben Dario
It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.
~ Rudolf Arnheim
The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power gives strength unto my limbs. In sunlight shining clear I revere, Oh God, the strength of humankind, which thou has planted in my soul, that I may with all my might, may love to work and learn. From thee stream light and strength to thee rise love and thanks.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!
~ Rudolfo Anaya
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling
When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it—lie down for an eon or two,Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful ' and sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him seesThat half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:—"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade...
~ Rudyard Kipling
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I have never understood why "hard work" is supposed to be pitiable. True, some work is soul destroying when it is done against the grain, but when it is part of "making" how can you grudge it? You get tired, of course, but the struggle, the challenge, the feeling of being extended as you never thought you could be is fulfilling and deeply, deeply satisfying.
~ Rumer Godden
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
~ Rumi
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
~ Rupert Brooke
I get up at seven yeah and I go to work at nine. I got no time for livin'. Yes I'm workin' all the time. It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me they call me the workin' man.
~ Rush
The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying. Something
~ Ruskin Bond
The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying.
~ Ruskin Bond
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
~ Russell Baker
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
~ Russell Banks
when you embrace the process of your work, instead of focusing on the results, you'll always be happier, plus do a much better job.
~ Russell Simmons
When it comes to transformation or deformation, organizational cultures are rarely neutral. For the most part cultural norms will support and catalyze or work against the process of spiritual transformation. Cultivating a culture
~ Ruth Haley Barton
El cansancio peligroso conforma una condición atmosférica inestable del alma y presagia el riesgo de una gran destrucción. Se trata de una fatiga interior acumulada a través de meses y meses, y no siempre se manifiesta con cansancio físico. Es más, puede estar enmascarada tras una actividad excesiva y un trabajo exagerado.
~ Ruth Haley Barton
Sabbath keeping is a way of ordering one's whole life to honor the rhythm of things--work and rest, fruitfulness and dormancy, giving and receiving, being and doing, activism and surrender. The day itself is set apart, devoted completely to rest, worship, and delighting in God and his good gifts. And the rest of the week must be lived in such a way a way as to make Sabbath possible.
~ Ruth Haley Barton