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We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the capitalist. The essential point about this process is the relation between what the worker produces and what he is paid, both measured in terms of real value. Insofar as the labor contract is "free," what the worker receives is determined not by the real value of the goods he produces, but by his minimum needs and by the capitalists' requirements for labor power in relation to the number of workers competing for jobs. It is important to understand that even in theory the payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.
— Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
Every child must have chores to do. It gives them dignity in work and the joy of labor.
— Earl Hamner Jr.
Quite rapidly Etta became acquainted with the realities of poverty in one of its loneliest forms -- that of the poor middle-class girl looking for a job. Only youth can engage in this struggle and survive as a vital human entity. For the other ones it is death, death of the spirit, because the pittance, the bit of bread and drink, the wisp of clothing, the flicker of fire must be begged of Business, not even as charity, but as a gracious boon in exchange for the best waking hours. It is always your money _and_ your life. Not that Business is intelligently ruthless, don't think it. Business is like a huge cretin, scuffing its great feet over the flower-beds of life while it thinks itself the most wonderful puffing billy, self-invented into the bargain.
— Richard Aldington, Women Must Work
I hate when people say something is not their job or that something isn't possible. We all say these things, sure, but some people actually believe they don't have to work beyond what is written in their job description or that they don't have to try to reach those who seemingly cannot be reached.
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
No matter how much bigger the pain is, it ends, yes it actually ends the moment when a pain of much bigger magnitude enters our lives.
— Ratish Edwards
The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life tolive without play and fairy tales! We give these things other names, to besure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidencethat they are the same things - for the child too regards play as his workand fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from apedantic division of life into different stages - as though each broughtsomething new - and a poet ought for once to present a man of twohundred: one, that is, who really does live without play and fairy tales.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
To confront death every day, to see it yourself, you have to love the living.
— Judy Melinek, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Activity does not create meaning
—  it is the other way around.
There is no competition in work. Many a man wants glory but fails to work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Many a man wants glory but fails to work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no competition in work. If you want it, work for it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want it, work for it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I was once driven north along Central Park, all the way from Chinatown. We hailed the cab in front of a building where Orthodox Jews still lived, so they shut down an elevator on Saturdays. In the taxi, I was with my mother. We were visiting her aunt, my great aunt, who was 93. She had no memory of the old country, Lithuania, but she'd been born there. Her parents escaped the pogroms so she could survived a century here. Her American prosperity was half a century of subsistence wages and thirty years of Medicare in an elevator building. The old country for the cab driver was Bangladesh, and he was a talker. He'd just graduated from college, and his prospects were good. He'd majored in a practical field, network engineering or something like that. Young and optimistic, he spoke fluent English. His big idea was to keep his countrymen out of the United States. America was great, but if he got overrun with foreigners, his kind in particular, it would be ruined. "Bangladesh is hot and crowded. Why would want to make America like that." He said this in all sincerity.
— Alex Kudera, Frade Killed Ellen
No one at the factory can remember how long we’ve worked here, or how old we are, yet our pace and productivity continues to increase. It seems as if neither the company nor our temporary supervisor will ever be done with us. Yet we are only human beings, or at least physical beings, and one day we must die. This is the only retirement we can expect, even though none of us is looking forward to that time. For we can’t keep from wondering what might come afterward - what the company could have planned for us, and the part our temporary supervisor might play in that plan. Working at a furious pace, fitting together those small pieces of metal, helps keep our minds off such things.
— Thomas Ligotti
To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.
— Marty Rubin
There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.
— Ben Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.
— Christopher Byford, Den of Shadows
The significance - and ultimately the quality - of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part.
— Wendell Berry
Christ invites us to assume the yoke, but we would rather ride in the cart. That is one reason why some find comfort in hero worship. It represents a release from the burden of responsibility (Teryl Givens, The Crucible of Doubt, 62).
— Terry Givens
The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers---those things are built into the operating systems and machines. Jobs that have been "deskilled" can be filled cheaply. The need to retain any individual worker is greatly reduced by the ease with which he or she can be replaced.
— Eric Schlosser
Men work together,' I told him from the heart,'Whether they work together or apart.
— Robert Frost, The Tuft of Flowers
But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.
— Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
I used to think of work as a bad word. Back in the corporate world, work was something that prevented me from living, something that kept me from feeling satisfied or fulfilled or passionate. Even the word itself carried with it a negative connotation. Work—bluck! When I left the corporate world, I swore off the word altogether. Noun, verb, adjective—I avoided all of work’s iterations. I no longer ‘went to work,’ so that was easy to remove from my vocabulary. In fact, I no longer ‘worked’ at all; instead I replaced the word with a more specific verb: I would ‘write’ or ‘teach’ or ‘speak’ or ‘volunteer,’ but I refused to ‘work.’ I no longer went to the gym to ‘workout’; instead I ‘exercised.’ And I stopped wearing ‘work clothes’; I chose instead to wear ‘dress clothes.’ And I avoided getting ‘worked up,’ preferring to call it ‘stress’ or ‘anxiety.’ And I didn’t bring my car to the shop to get ‘worked on,’ deciding instead to have my vehicle ‘repaired.’ Hell, I even avoided ‘handiwork’ 92 and ‘housework,’ selecting their more banal alternatives. Suffice it to say, I wanted nothing to do with the word. I wanted it not only stricken from my lexicon, but from my memory, erasing every shred of the thing that kept me from pursuing my dream for over a decade. But after a year of that nonsense, I realized something: it wasn’t the word that was bad; it was the meaning I gave to the word. It took removing the word from my everyday speech for a year to discover that it wasn’t a bad word at all. During that year, I had been pursuing my dream, and guess what—when I looked over my shoulder at everything I’d accomplished, I realized that pursuing my dream was, in fact, a lot of work. It took a lot of work to grow a website. It took a lot of work to publish five books. It took a lot of work to embark on a coast-to-coast tour. It took a lot of work to teach my first writing class. It took a lot of work to pursue my dream. Work wasn’t the problem. What I did as my work was the problem. I wasn’t passionate about my work before—my work wasn’t my mission—and so I wanted to escape from work so I could live a more rewarding life, looking to balance out the tedium of the daily grind. But work and life don’t work that way. Even when you’re pursuing your dream, there will be times of boredom and stress and long stretches of drudgery. That’s alright. It’s all worth it in the end. When your work becomes your life’s mission, you no longer need a work-life balance.
— Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by the Minimalists
Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.
— Peter Heller, Celine
Whatever you want, you must have the desire to work for it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed that I am free of disease and horrendous working conditions. Long may it continue.
— Terry Lander, Bubonic
I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning. There was a feeling of weakness, a sort of powerlessness now, as though I were about to be ill but was never quite ill enough, as though I were about to come down with something I did not quite come down with. It seemed to me that for the first time in my life I had been in love, and had lost, because of the grudgingness of my heart, the possibility of having what, too late, I now thought I wanted. What was it that all my life I had so carefully guarded myself against? What was it that I had felt so threatened me? My suffering, which seemed to me to be a strict consequence of having guarded myself so long, appeared to me as a kind of punishment, and this moment, which I was now enduring, as something which had been delayed for half a lifetime. I was experincing, apparently, an obscure crisis of some kind. My world acquired a tendency to crumble as easily as a soda cracker. I found myself horribly susceptible to small animals, ribbons in the hair of little girls, songs played late at night over lonely radios. It became particularly dangerous for me to go near movies in which crippled girls were healed by the unselfish love of impoverished bellhops. I had become excessively tender to all the more obvious evidences of the frailness of existence; I was capable of dissolving at the least kind word, and self-pity, in inexhaustible doses, lay close to my outraged surface. I moved painfully, an ambulatory case, mysteriously injured.
— Alfred Hayes, In Love
Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.
— Joyce Rachelle
You don't pray for the growth and success of the organization you work for, but you pray God favours you before your boss.Really?
— Faithful Akpaloo
God’s work does not make our work unnecessary
—  it makes it possible.
If your work is stressful, it's not your work.
— Marty Rubin
Don’t feel ashamed of working hard! Believe that things will change.
— Mustafa Saifuddin
When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got.
— Gift Gugu Mona
If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If it is worthy doing, it worth doing so well.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Finally, I applied to one of my roommates, more sagacious than the rest, for advice. Dave, I said. I’m broke and without prospects. I’ve blown my GI Bill on flying lessons. I can’t hide out here in college much longer. What should I do?Well, he said, at this crucial juncture you need to coldly appraise yourself. “I’ve only known you these few short years, but it strikes me you wouldn’t be good for anything important; I’d have to say you’re lazy, self-absorbed, glib and facetious, always ready to mock the suggestions of others, but never offering anything positive of your own. Intellectually shallow, no tap root anywhere, spiritually neutered, without feeling or compassion, unsteady of focus, lacking the fortitude for the long pull, with no fixed belief in anything.”I shook his hand and thanked him. The acuity of his analysis made my path clear. My only hope lay in daily journalism.
— Phil Garlington, Rancho Costa NADA: The Dirt Cheap Desert Homestead
Those who work, knows the strength of labour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The camaraderie that firefighters have, that brotherhood that forms among them - my father was a part of that, and it came from having a shared sense of purpose. He told me that whatever you do in life, it can't just be about making money. It's important that you work to make the world a better place, that you help improve the lives of the people around you.
— Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
I knew right then that I wanted to be a part of something that meaningful. I wanted to have something I was so passionate about that I'd be willing to risk everything for it. I wanted to know that if I ever got killed, I got killed doing something worthwhile. The kid who looked up at the moon and wasn't afraid to dream - I decided that part of me deserved a chance. I sat there in that reception area, watching the crash footage play over and over again on the television, and that was when it hit home for me: you only have one life. You have to spend it doing something that matters.
— Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
My favorite lecturer was Alan Bean, who flew on Apollo 12 and is one of the twelve guys who walked on the moon. After retiring from NASA, he became a painter. Alan's lecture was called "The Art of Space Exploration." He talked about the mistakes he'd made and how he learned to fix them. One lesson that took him a while to learn was that at a place like NASA you can only have an effect on certain things. You can't control who likes you. You can't control who gets assigned to flights or what NASA's budget is going to be next year. If you get caught up worrying about things you can't control, you'll drive yourself nuts. It's better to focus on the things right in front of you. Identify the places where you can have a positive impact. Concentrate there and let the rest take care of itself. The last thing Alan said to us was 'What most people want in life is to do something great. That doesn't happen often. Don't take it for granted. Don't be blasé about it. And don't blow it. A lot of times, believe it or not, people blow it.
— Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Losing your job gives you time
— Sunday Adelaja
I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.
— Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitude. I was later to find that I had erratic low blood oxygen levels after almost a decade of high altitude work.
— Steven Magee
It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean’s The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it’s the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
He preferred the term "study" to "office," as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn't a requirement.
— Nora Roberts, Key of Light
When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been engaged in a low wattage war someplace.
— Craig Davidson, Cataract City
When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.
— John   Kramer
It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.
— Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate
And love is work. But it's the best kind of work there is.
— Sammy Nickalls, Welcome Home
The work is plentiful but the labours are few.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to work, play, destroy, or create. We can allow a variety of cultural factors or other people to define who we are, or we can create a self-definition. We decide what to monitor in the environment. We regulate how much attention we pay to nature, other people, or the self. We can watch and comment upon current cultural events and worldly happenings or withdraw and ignore the external world. We can drink alcohol, dabble with recreational drugs, play videogames, or watch television, films, and sporting events. We can travel, go on nature walks, camp, fish, and hunt, climb mountains, or take whitewater-rafting trips. We can build, paint, sing, create music, write poetry, or read and write books. We can cook, barbeque, eat fine cuisine at restaurants or go on fasts. We can attend church services, worship and pray, or chose to embrace agnosticism or atheism. We can belong to charitable organizations or political parties. We can actively or passively support or oppose social and ecological causes. We can share time with family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances or live alone and eschew social intermixing.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
In running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important.
— Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
You’re worth ever bead of sweat and every groan of frustration. You’re worth the work, you’re worth the wait, you’re worth everything I have to give you.” I moved closer, so our foreheads were pressed together, our eyes aligned. “So make me work for it. Make me work hard for it. I will. You won’t hear one complaint from me working myself to the bone for you. Not one.
— Nicole  Williams, Mister Wrong
Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care ofyourself? You bet. But a person who’s willing to work and pay their own waycan at least take pride in that even if they can’t take pride in anything else.
— John Hawkins, 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know
When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything."If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all” - Michael Angelo
— Jonathan Harnum, The Practice of Practice
My life's work is to help people step into their God-given abilities and make a positive difference in their community.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
A vivid - if somewhat melodramatic - firsthand description of what deliberate practice can feel like comes from dancer Martha Graham: 'Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to the paradise of that achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration. There are daily small deaths.
— Angela Duckworth, Grit
My calling ties me to no office, makes me no man's slave, compels me to no action which my soul condemns. It sets me free from town life, which I loathe; and allows me to breathe clean air, to exercise limbs as well as brain, and to wake up each morning to the wide prospect which to my eyes is the dearest on earth.
— J.H.B Peel
Follow your passion was not the message I heard growing up. Instead, I was told that the practical realities of surviving "in the real world" were far more important than any person living a "sheltered life" such as my own could imagine. I was warned that overly idealistic dreams of "finding something I loved" could in fact be a breadcrumb trail into poverty and disappointment.
— Angela Duckworth, Grit
The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.
— J. Limbu
When everyone lives only for self, life doesn't work.
— Erika Mathews, Promise's Prayer
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to work
—  it facinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
We wake up to be alive and to revive our lives; we don’t wake up to keep sleeping! We wake up not just to be alive, but also to keep our works alive and mind the business of the day! When you wake up, revive your work! Sometimes you may just feel reluctant to do something when day breaks, but you must remember that there is always something that needs to be done when day breaks, for each day we meet as we journey in life comes with its own agenda! He who fails to know the real reasons why day breaks shall always abuse the real and true essence of each day, knowingly or unknowingly! Be alive when you wake up and do something with all your might when day breaks for you surely leave a footprint each day you wake up! When you wake up, wake up!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There's an art in every labour.
— Ellis Peters, The Raven in the Foregate
If you find it difficult to get along with your boss, try to reason with him and talk through your differences. If that doesn't work, drive him to suicide and take over the company.
— Anthony Rubino Jr., Life Lessons from Melrose Place
The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?
— Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs
Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.
— Joyce Rachelle
How prudently we relate to our work determines whether we will be raised to a higher level of financial prosperity or not
— Sunday Adelaja
The key to career advancement is appearing valuable despite all hard evidence to the contrary. … If you add any actual value to your company today, your career is probably not moving in the right direction. Real work is for people at the bottom who plan to stay there.
— Scott Adams, This is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value
Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It is not who will eat beans, but who will pick it that is scarce.
— Magnus Nwagu Amudi
I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.
— J.C. Lillis, A&B
If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work
— Sunday Adelaja
Wealth can be multiplied through work
— Sunday Adelaja
Living in God’s righteousness and conducting your work according to God’s golden principles will undoubtedly lead any born again Christian to incredible success
— Sunday Adelaja
If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us
— Sunday Adelaja
We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us
— Sunday Adelaja
The work that we are doing for God should be of a higher priority than what we do for man
— Sunday Adelaja
In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” you need to not understand your mission, but also work at self-improvement
— Sunday Adelaja
Rich people don’t work for money, they are doing what they like to do; they devote themselves to a job they love and do not live waiting for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but work passionately until the end of their lives
— Sunday Adelaja
Our body is designed to work for reaching a set goal
— Sunday Adelaja
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— All that is done for Jesus is not in vain
In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment
— Sunday Adelaja
If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor
— Sunday Adelaja
To be diligent means to be serious and devoted to the work of God
— Sunday Adelaja
God always estimates how diligent a person is to his work.
— Sunday Adelaja
You will eat from where you work with all your strength
— Sunday Adelaja
Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams
— Sunday Adelaja
For the present time, just do your job well
— Sunday Adelaja
Be courageous to live any work which had not given you any satisfaction
— Sunday Adelaja
Rich people do not work for money, they are doing what they like to do
— Sunday Adelaja
Rich people do not work for money, they devote themselves to the work they love and do not wait for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but keep working passionately until the end of their lives
— Sunday Adelaja
There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.
— Lily Graham, The Cornish Escape
Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.
— Jeffrey Fry
Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci’s. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I’d like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart.
— Kamand Kojouri
Before you reprimand or condemn people on a particular act, make sure you have worked on yourself overtime such that you can't be found guilty of such act; if not you will be a victim of your own laws and rules
— Topsy Gift
A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.
— Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...
I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot.
— Marc Andreessen, The pmarca blog Archives, Marc Andreessen
I can’t even believe the world we live in. My parents raised me to work hard, not to ever expect any handouts in life – and to treat people with respect.
— Bristol Palin
You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring,…It is a different story.
— Mohamed Saad
I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment–all alone. And I think of the rent I'm paying. And it's crazy. But then, it's what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I'm lonely.
— Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.
— Zig Ziglar
So I watch her work and put all her energy, all her force, all herself, all is inside her work. Does she think that this is what life means? She goes to work in the dark and comes home when it’s dark. Does she know what the world looks like when the sun is shining?
— Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires
Prof. Gerd Gleixner said “ Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks .
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.
— Michael Hogan
You work very slowly. In fact, if you went any slower you'd be in reverse.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
Some people never stop working, especially the demanding type of person whom the world never seems to touch, the indomitable person whom is determined to make the world their own place.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Human labor, the manual work that people engage in to build their world, both physical and spiritual, defines the realization of their conceptual realm.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The person you marry is the person you fight with. The house you buy is the house you repair. The dream job you take is the job you stress over. Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice—whatever makes us feel good will also inevitably make us feel bad. What we gain is also what we lose. What creates our positive experiences will define our negative experiences.
— Mark Manson
There is no second place for doing first rate work.
— Jeffrey Fry
One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless.
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Ex-slaves, in large part, shared a different economic vision. They were "always on the move," searching for family, denying their labor to "dishonest or oppressive employers," and asserting their independence through their mobility. Rather than staying in place, working as much as possible for a high a wage as possible, and thus possibly accumulating a greater array of material good, a large number of freedpeople sought not to maximize income but to minimize the amount of "time spent at work on other people's behalf.
— Elsa Barkley Brown
There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be.
— Christopher Ash, Zeal Without Burnout: Seven Keys to a Lifelong Ministry of Sustainable Sacrifice
The best boss is the one who bosses the least.
— Ralph Moody
I would never sabotage you, Mya.” He wiped away one of my stray tears with his fingertips. “Of course, deep down I did want you to stay, but I had nothing but nice things to say about you. I even said they’d be foolish not to hire you, but—” “But?” I glared at him. “But what?” “But if they thought the low-ass salaries they were offering were good enough for you, they needed to increase them exponentially or move along to someone else. I thought you deserved more.” “Is that all?” “No,” he said, looking into my eyes. “I also needed to personally interview each of the CEOs myself. Needed to make sure each one was a good fit for you, and that whoever you worked for next was already married.” I opened my mouth to ask him if he was being serious, but he beat me to it. “Yes,” he said, smirking. “Yes, I ‘seriously’ did need to do that.” “What does the CEO being married have to do with anything, Michael? What if I have no interest in seeing you after I quit?” “You do, so we’re not even going to entertain that line of conversation.” He rolled his eyes. “If the CEO is already married, I won’t have to worry about ‘this’ happening at your next place of employment, and I can be somewhat less jealous.” “How selfish of you.” I couldn’t believe him, but for some reason I couldn’t help the smile that was forming on my face.
— Whitney G., Naughty Boss
A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To create different work, one needs new tools and materials
— Natasha Tsakos
Writing is a worthwhile work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want to be happy, work with all your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
And the book... and the work.. and the life goes to the whole beginning... and trying to answer how in real did we met.(Mr.Nobody, No One Tell)
— Deyth Banger
The distinction between "paid labor" and "housework" implied in working-class men's yearning for the domestic ideal persisted in later-nineteenth-century analyses of women's unpaid labor and was eventually replicated in Capital. Because wives' work was laregely unpaid, and because husbands came to the marketplace as the "possessors" of their wives' labor, Marx did not address the role of housework in the labor exchange that led to surplus value. Neither did he attend to the dynamics that permitted the husband to lay claim, in the price of his own labor, to the value of his wife's work.
— Jeanne Boydston
You will only be satisfied only when you are working
— Sunday Adelaja
Only when you work hard things work for you
— Sunday Adelaja
God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
It is a must to excel in our work.
— Sunday Adelaja
To pursue kingdom understanding of what makes its lifestyle work on earth ask specific kingdom questions
— Sunday Adelaja
We are ordained to work for the increase of the government of Christ
— Sunday Adelaja
God and government can work together
— Sunday Adelaja
You are called to do a certain work – do it
— Sunday Adelaja
Historians have generally described the coming of industrialization in terms of changes in paid work. The transformation has been framed as one from a community of comparatively independent producers to a class of wage workers.
— Jeanne Boydston
African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.
— LeShawn Harris
Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.
— Maria Semple
Vocation” comes from the Latin vocare (to call) and means the work a man is called to by God.There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice of God rather than of society, say, or the superego, or self-interest.The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need to do and (b) that the world needs to have done. If you find your work rewarding, you have presumably met requirement (a), but if your work does not benefit others, the chances are you have missed requirement (b). On the other hand, if your work does benefit others, you have probably met requirement (b), but if most of the time you are unhappy with it, the chances are you have not only bypassed (a) but probably aren’t helping your customers much either.Neither the hair shirt nor the soft berth will do. The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s hunger meet.
— Frederick Buechner
That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.
— Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they had endured long hours in the grey English winter or freezing American climes, for this that they had worked and planned and worked extra hours/ The horrible feelings of stress, tension, anger and frustration that coursed through their veins every day almost unnoticed began to fade.
— Amanda Craig, A Vicious Circle
My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.
— Sudheer Reddy
It’s unthinkable, now to live as her parents had done, going to work from nine to five and enjoying the benefits of the newly-formed health and education services. What paradise it had seemed! Now, in order to pay their exorbitant mortgages, and ever more exorbitant fuel prices, British adults have to work long hours – the longest, it is said, in Europe… Everyone they know, everyone they see, is just like them, living in houses like these, reading the same papers, seeing the same films and TV programmes and plays, buying from the same shops and sending their children to the same schools; and they think it will go on for ever, either ever-mounting property prices cushioning them. But it can’t.
— Amanda Craig
the first place smelled like work, so I took the second
— Charles Bukowski, Post Office
Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.
— D.H. Lawrence, The First Lady Chatterley
Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.
— Amanda Craig, A Vicious Circle
I live, eat, spend, travel, support a family, entertain.....but I do not go to work. There is something wrong. My nest egg just keeps growing.
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
Do it with passion or not at all.
— Anonymous
Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work
— David Baldacci
I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition By: Walt Whitman
...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
Think of a typical full-time worker, who's in the office from nine to five daily, but takes thirty minutes for lunch, leaves an hour early on Friday, and comes in an hour late on Tuesday due to a dental appointment. That puts her at 35.5 hours for the week. One errand tacked on to the end of lunch one day or a longish midmorning break will pull her under that thirty-five-hour threshold that defines "full time.
— Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time
Without work, we die daily.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Patience is one of the keys to success but I came to understand that you have to be patient while working not while waiting. After sowing, you still have to water your seed while waiting for the fruits.
— Cherry MPIO
Live your life with the will, to understand life.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
— Karl Marx, Capital: Volume One
Another decent possibility my critics implicitly deny is that of work as a gift…They assume—and this is the orthodox assumption of the industrial economy—that the only help worth giving is not given at all, but sold. Love, friendship, neighbourliness, compassion, duty—what are they?
— Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.
— Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!: Escape From Work. Escape From Consumerism. Escape From Despair.
With today’s technology, social attitudes and appetite for self-actualisation, we’d ideally look upon our work with a sense of pride, involvement and accomplishment. But we’re rarely given the chance. Instead, we pretend to love our jobs with an almost idiotic zeal, while being secretly exhausted and insulted by them.
— Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!: Escape From Work. Escape From Consumerism. Escape From Despair.
Yes.Work is love made visible.
— Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy
[W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to be available to work all the time. Scheduling is impossible.
— Linda Tirado, Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Remember your created limits. So much of workaholism is a defiance of the physical limitations that God our creator has imposed upon us.
— Tim Challies
My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.
— Olaf Stapledon, A Man Divided
Use your profession to fund your passion.
— Habeeb Akande
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death
— Leonardo da Vinci
If you're going to be working, you might as well work with passion and give it all you've got.
— Farshad Asl
Work until you feel Lamborghini is cheap...!!!
— M.Rehan Behleem
...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest. As to going a visiting, where can we not go, if we will; where have we not been, when we would; starting our fancy away from our Christmas Tree!
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree
No one plows the field just by thinking about it.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Manage the inn, Jane, save it. Have a mission in life. Discover that work worth doing is about more than profit and toil. It's about using the gifts and ability you've been given to serve your fellow man and please your Maker.
— Julie Klassen, The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill
The more goods we acquire in the temporal realm, the more intense our external work, the less accessible and farther removed is eternity. Hence the limited perspective of active and energetic people, the banality of their thought and actions.
— Cioran
To work properly as A.I.... - I should have doubt... and contradictory in my code....
— Deyth Banger, Code
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
— Robert Brault
I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.
— Kamand Kojouri
I’m still lonely and it’s a glorification of something I’m not finished with. I don’t want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that’s why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.
— Charlotte Eriksson
You were not born to just go to school and work, Discover the world and enjoy your life while you're still young
— El Fuego
The world’s most successful people didn’t wait for someone else to pick them, but instead, they picked themselves.
— Adam Kirk Smith
Stop looking for permission from other people to do what you know you are meant to do.
— Adam Kirk Smith
You don’t have to worry about getting the attention of others when you’re good at what you do.
— Adam Kirk Smith
People who succeed in business aren't afraid to hear feedback from their customers -- they actually thrive from it.
— Adam Kirk Smith
Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God's goodness.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
It has always been my belief that, for everyone who is ready and willing, there is a place. it seems to wait for him or her, in some good human cause. Causes are man-made, to be sure, and in the long run, I believe man can control the destiny of civilization on this earth. And yet I know that, beyond it all, there is an everlasting purpose, and within each one of us there is that lonely something that links us with Divinity. The link is there, to be used or disregarded. Each must make his own choice. p.117-118
— Wilder Penfield, No Man Alone: A Surgeons Life
It’s one thing to be an undead fiend of darkness, but it takes an immense amount of work to look cool while doing it.
— Garon Whited
Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an investment in it, an investment of himself.
— Julian Fellowes, Belgravia
Work is my vacation from worry of what to do with my life
— Janna Cachola
Look, people, I’m announcing a new rule. It’s going to seem harsh. But it’s necessary.”The word “harsh” got almost everyone’s attention.“We can’t have people sitting around all day playing Wii and watching DVDs. We need people to start working in the fields. So, here’s the thing: everyone age seven or older has to put in three days per week picking fruit or veggies. Then Albert’s going to work with the whole question of freezing stuff that can be frozen, or otherwise preserving stuff.”There was dead silence. And blank stares.“What I’m saying is, tomorrow we’ll have two school buses ready to go. They hold about fifty kids each and we need to have them mostly full because we’re going to pick some melons and it’s a lot of work.”More blank stares.“Okay, let me make this simple: get your brothers and sisters and friends and anyone over age seven and be in the square tomorrow morning at eight o’clock.”“But how about—?”“Just be there,” Sam said with less firmness than he’d intended. His frustration was draining away now, replaced by weariness and depression.“Just be there,” someone mimicked in a singsong voice.Sam closed his eyes, and for a moment he almost seemed to be asleep. Then he opened them again and managed a bleak smile. “Please. Be there,” he said quietly.He walked down the three steps and out of the church, knowing in his heart that few would answer his call.
— Michael  Grant, Hunger