Quotes
Quotes about Work
The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. â¢Hermann Hesse Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. â¢Harriet Lerner Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. â¢Anthony J D'Angelo Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. â¢Richard M DeVos Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. â¢Sidney Malwed Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. â¢Albert Schweitzer The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. â¢Joan Baez For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. â¢Warren Beatty The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smellsâand he smelled real nice. â¢Sandra Bullock My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. â¢Lord Byron In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. â¢Angela Carter I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. â¢Helen Hunt If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. â¢Octavio Paz The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. â¢Alexandria Penney It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting. â¢Todd Ruthman When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring. â¢Bob Seger If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times. â¢Montel Williams Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work! God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York.
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
