Quotes
Quotes about Work
The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's presentâlove, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasureâthe wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets; May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come; A frolic scene, where work and mirth and play Unite their charms to cheer the hours away.
Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. â¢Bible Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. â¢Gaelic Proverb There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. â¢Gilbert K. Chesterton If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. â¢Arabian Proverb The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. â¢Benjamin Franklin See with your mind, hear with your heart. â¢Kurdish Proverb Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. â¢David Hare Were it not for hope the heart would break.
The heart is the first feature of working minds. -Frank Lloyd Wright.
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. -Michael Bridge.
Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want. -Sue Bender.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. -Marc Chagall.
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) -Louis Nizer.
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happyâcommon clay, if you likeâeating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the othersâthe noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
