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Quotes About Work

Why, because I must! Because how could I rest, when the world is so cruel and hard, and yet might be so sweet. . . The kind of work I do is its own kind of fulfilment, whether it's successful or not." She drank her tea. "It's like love." "Love!" I sniffed. "You think love is its own reward, then?" "Don't you?
~ Sarah Waters
You have been put too much to literary work,' he said on one of his visits, 'and that is the cause of your complaint.
~ Sarah Waters
Men tend to multiply duties in their observance of religion. This practice enables them to give Me money, time, and work without yielding up to Me what I desire the most—their
~ Sarah Young
Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
~ Sargent Shriver
The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.
~ Saskia de Brauw
Drop the delusion that you have become old or diseased, or that you have become weak and debilitated. Some people begin to count the years and grieve over advancing age and shudder like cowards afraid of death. But remember, elation is heaven, despondency is hell. Have always some work to do, and do it well that you will get joy.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.
~ Saul Bass
Born to golf. Forced to work.
~ Saying
Once its done, it doesn't seem IMPOSSIBLE. One can Acquire anything with Knowledge and learning. One should not dream about success, one should work for it. only secret to success is determination.
~ Scholar Talks
Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.
~ Scot McKnight
Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade—not outside it. Whatever we are called to "do" is not a "job" but a sacred vocation.
~ Scot McKnight
God's dream is the kingdom, that's already clear. But what is not always clear is that God's kingdom happens when human beings are empowered by God's Spirit to do God's kingdom work in the shape of a new community.
~ Scot McKnight
In the potent words of Dorothy Sayers, our vocation is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
~ Scot McKnight
When Jesus calls his disciples 'the salt,' instead of himself, this transfers his efficacy on earth to them. He brings them into his work." But he adds the warning of Jesus: "The call of Jesus Christ means being salt of the earth or being destroyed.
~ Scot McKnight
God's kingdom happens when human beings are empowered by God's Spirit to do God's kingdom work in the shape of a new community.
~ Scot McKnight
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
~ Scott Adams
I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.
~ Scott Adams
Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime.
~ Scott Adams
Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto
~ Scott Adams
Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.
~ Scott Adams
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
~ Scott Adams
Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.
~ Scott Adams
I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.
~ Scott Adams
Most people doubt online meetings can work, but they somehow overlook that most in-person meetings don't work either.
~ Scott Berkun