Quotation Explorer - 'Work'

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out. - Joss Whedon

Forget yourself and go to work. - Bryant S. Hinckley

I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good. - Jim Henson

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it, Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. - Ambrose Bierce

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. - Marcel Proust

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it. - Cicely Tyson

Work will win when wishy-washy wishing won't. - Thomas S. Monson

I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse. - Eloisa James

Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest. - Derric Yuh Ndim

A hater is a person with a complete understanding of your destiny but assigns him or her self as a representative to work tirelessly on your misery. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

POSITIVITY is one of the most attractive scents you can wear ! If you've been running around all day today - perspiring lots from all your challenging work - be sure to spray on some Positivity Scent (spritz, spritz!) before you head on home! - Angie karan

I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for the lunch bell. I wish them well. They have, however, never been the subjects of novels, and in all likelihood, will never be. - Michael Cunningham

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you. - Augustine of Hippo

It is not about how much money we make or how big and powerful our work appears to others, it is about the love with which we put into each act of kindness toward another human being. - Joyce Vissell

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. - Kevin Durant

Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually. - Dalai Lama XIV

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't. - Don Roff

True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko - Natsuki Takaya

Be happy for things that work. - Na'ama Yehuda

Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. - Phillips Brooks

If antidepressant drugs are effective, why don't they work for psychiatrists? Year after year, psychiatrists commit suicide at a higher rate than the general population. Are we to believe that they don't take their own drugs, or that the drugs don't have the benefits attributed to them?

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults. - Karl Marlantes

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. - August Wilson

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you’ll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn’t make you better. - Seth Godin

Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what I hope my work does anyway. I want someone to read it and know that they aren't alone in the universe. I want my words to act as connective tissue. - Patrick Hicks

When a relationship of love is disrupted, the relationship does not cease. The love continues; therefore, the relationship continues. The work of grief is to reconcile and redeem life to a different love relationship. - W. Scott Lineberry

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work! - Mehmet Murat ildan

No matter how unattractive your job is, once you are earning with honesty and dignity you need not care what people think of you in your work uniform. - moolesh.k.dindoyal

Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds. - Jo Baker

Aim to be the blue ribbon best. Have high standards and work to be exceptional. Develop yourself from practice to be a winner at what you do. - Mark F. LaMoure

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of man must be respected and it is dignified - Sunday Adelaja

I have ugly hands, but I'm grateful 'coz they work beautifully! - Margo Vader

God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit? - Lailah Gifty Akita

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries. - Wisława Szymborska

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. - Edmund Burke

Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him. - Shannon L. Alder

Mom, mom, mama, mama wake up, wake up, wake up... (As far I see she won't wake up... she will wake up one moment on 80 then 90 and her life devastated and lost... What do I gain from here?From her work?? She will die and she won't realise that everything was useless what more worst than that???) - Deyth Banger

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. - Friedrich Nietzsche

To be great is not a word but work that makes a word. - Auliq Ice

Speaking about work isn’t working. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind. - Jennie Chancey

Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work - Paolo Coelho

America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. - Malcolm X

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen

Dreams don't work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them. - Roy T. Bennett

Never ever work! Do everything for fun. Remember, life is for joy! - Debasish Mridha

There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable. - Roopleen

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach

Our people must once again realize that it is only hard work and excellence that leads to wealth creation. - Sunday Adelaja

Just when you start believing life will never work out for you, it has a habit of showing you a solution to your problems. - Karon Waddell

Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it. - Mark W. Boyer

A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies. - Nora Roberts

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. - Horace

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. - Robert Half

What you work for, you will receive. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Knowing your true self will help you work more effectively to reach your goals. It will lead you down the road to success. It will bring you a calmness that will improve your attitude and your relationships with others. - Auliq Ice

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. - W. Somerset Maugham

Work with yourself. - A.D. Posey

All work done with love is healing work. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Don't be a puppet of work; let work be your puppet. - Joey Lawsin

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. - Kris Kristofferson

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. - Robert Bringle

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t." — - Lucille Ball

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as close to heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you can which the world does not need - this life is hell.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come. - Barack Obama

Raising children is like baking cookies at high altitudes. The recipe doesn’t work. You must open the oven door and keep checking on the cookies. - Dr Margaret Aranda

When you gain maximum knowledge in any area of work and put it into practice, no power - Sunday Adelaja

I am not smart, I pay attention.I am not considerate, I listen.I am not patient, I make time. I’m not lucky, I work hard. - Mark W. Boyer

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. - Unknown

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. - Matt Groening

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs. - Aniruddha Sastikar

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. - Albert Camus

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert

Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change. - Shonda Rhimes

A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious. - David Brazier

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

Dance like it hurts, Love like you need money, Work when people are watching. - Scott Adams

Being married is effortless; being happily married takes work. - Matshona Dhliwayo

She was supportive, didn’t pry or expect anything from me, and sensed when I needed my space. If she were a guy, I’d probably date her. Or, if I were a lesbian. And if she were a lesbian. I guess we’d both have to be lesbians for that to work. Regardless, she made a pretty great friend. - Temple West

Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work. - Marilyn Suttle

When there is confusion as who to select between the two individuals for the confidential work, it is apparently worth to put the confidence on a person who believes in Luck than one who doesn't. - Anuj Somany

Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions. - Oscar Bimpong

There are times when looking on the bright side takes a lot ot work. I'm taking a break from it tonight. I'll be back at it tomorrow. - C.C. Alma

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own. - Leonardo da Vinci

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

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.

Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less. - Jim Elliot

I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility. - John Green

In God’s hands, the ingredients of our lives will always work out ultimately for our good and, even better, for His eternal purposes. - Elizabeth George

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work. - E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds

Sometimes criminals work and for cops and criminals have favourite cops... (Person of Interest) - Deyth Banger

If you want it enough, you find strength to work for its achievement. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work. - Amelia Boynton Robinson

You can also make your flaws work for you. - Auliq Ice

The nicest people I meet in life are those who work hard for everything they have; the meanest people I meet in life are those who have everything handed to them. - Ken Poirot

I am a nobody but I work for everybody. - Amit Abraham

Start dream building. Create your goals in the real world. Imagine yourself at your best. Transform yourself with inspiration and work to achieve excellence for success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Occupational Safety & Health Administration's (OSHA) lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work. - Steven Magee

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work - Thomas A. Edison

Dear my little children I work hard so as to make your lives better. so don't rest until you do thesame to your own children. - Hamzatribah

Life will not give you what you want, it will give you what you work for. - Systenious Makhubele

A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere. - Ken Poirot

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing. - Evan Esar

Work harder to become better person. There is no guarantee how long we are going to be here. Enjoy life. - Independentzen

Imagine and see yourself at your best. Change yourself with hard work, to become the excellent person you want to be. - Mark F. LaMoure

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. - Milton Friedman

... you can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relived when they get to democracy that they hang on to it. - John Steinbeck

Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the still waters! He was very powerful, and the fact that He expected you to think for yourself and do something in return for His help did not matter, as long as you could work things out. - Anne Holm

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

If there is no perfection of a work , be sure the perfection of a plan. - Cucuk Espe

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live. - Voltaire

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay. - Will Smith

Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends. - Bobby Darnell

My left foot is the wisdom from yesterday, my right foot is the vision of tomorrow and my mind is focused on the work of today and this is how I stand a winner. - Amit Kalantri

The fullness of God’s grace fills us with power for every good work. - Lailah Gifty Akita

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. - Mary Anne Radmacher

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught. - Sunday Adelaja

The Bible states in Psalms 139:14 that you are fearfully and wonderfully made and that you are a wonderful work of art. That makes you uniquely special. It only makes sense for you to just be the special you that you were created to be period. - DeWayne Owens

Woody Allen once said that ‘I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life! - Mehmet Murat ildan

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. - Alan W. Watts

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. - Julie Andrews Edwards

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. - Arthur C. Clarke

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. - Maxine Hong Kingston

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. - Gugu Mona

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. - David D. Allee

Stand out because you think differently.Stand out because you speak differently.Stand out because you act differently.Stand out because you work differently.Stand out because you live differently. - Matshona Dhliwayo

If you work all day, when can you connect with your soul? - Lailah Gifty Akita

When it comes to work, I will stop at nothing. When it comes to writing, I will never stop. - Robert Black

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you’re going to do the work anyway. Because you’re just wired that way. It’s so engrained, it’s such a part of your personality that you don’t just stop doing it. - David Sedaris

The key to gainful employment is creating a work environment and filing system too complex to train a new person on. Competency gets you work. Confusion keeps you employed.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. - Anatole France

When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve. - Roy Bennett

In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes. - Amit Kalantri

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious. - Samuel Butler

A miracle is when you take action on your goals, and create the visible from the invisible. Transform your thoughts and dreams into the material world, from planning, hard work and determination. - Mark LaMoure

I had spent many years living with a plain piece of canvas just right on my face as a headboard for my bed. As the years passed by, I watched it slowly transforming into a work of art which still lives above my head. And that my friend, is truly living art. - Shawn Lukas

Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible. - Diego Rivera

Work is victory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. - Raoul Vaneigem

Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually use your theology to justify things that should not be justified. - Paul David Tripp

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castaneda

Love can be sordid only if you work at it. - Brooke McEldowney

Teamwork makes the dream work - Bang Gae

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke

For life to work for you, you must equip yourself with the power of change. - Sunday Adelaja

Healing comes through God's work, and God deals differently with us when we deal differently with him. - Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. - Andy Warhol

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer. - Bernice Morgan

Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position. - Stephen King

...for every type of idea someone can have - no matter how weird or strange or gross or out there or disturbing - there is at least one person out there who enjoys that kind of idea, and the best part is seeing a book work its way to that person. - Stylo Fantome

For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence. - Yohji Yamamoto

Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it. - Israelmore Ayivor

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. - Nadine Gordimer

I spend my nights thinking the worstAnd telling myself that everything's going to work outI keep kicking myself in the mouthOpening up every cut that should be a scar by now - Real Friends

I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline - yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true potential. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Me too. Do you want to meet me at the golf course after you get off work tomorrow? Then we can see each other all afternoon.""That sounds good."Which it did. But even if she'd said "Do you want to meet me at the surface of the sun?" I'd still have agreed to it. - Mindi Scott

Those who will work hard will succeed,While those shop choose to slack at their work will be in need. - Tristan riggs

The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables. - Aldous Huxley

Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other. - Russ von Hoelscher

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. - Harold B. Lee

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. - Arthur Miller

Above all, trust in the slow work of God. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. A culture of work. A culture of labour. A culture of diligence. A culture of hard work. A culture of perseverance. A culture of persistence. A culture of DIGNITY OF LABOUR. - Sunday Adelaja

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work. - André Breton

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work. - Peter F. Drucker

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. - Carl Sagan

Don’t let circumstances hold you down; You were born to be free. Sometimes it’s not the hard work that pays but what you’ve learned from it. Be happy! Be yourself, be free. - Ane Krstevska

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you. - Anonymous

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. - Sam Ewing

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. - Thomas A. Edison

Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work? - Robert A. Glover

Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don’t put this off and don’t take the long view. Life is today and tomorrow, and if you are lucky, may be next week. - Garrison Keillor

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Edward Gibbon

Our stomachs live in towns," said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else. - Alexander McCall Smith

The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work. - George Alexiou

Work and pray rather instead of watching and wishing. - Anonymous

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. - Henry Van Dyke

Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking. - Kim R. Shaffer

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. - Marian Wright Edelman

The art and craft of early childhood teaching is in making decisions about fun, play and work. And it is this crafting that distinguishes the professional from the baby-sitter, parent or child minder. - Susan Grieshaber and Felicity McArdle

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. - E.M. Forster

Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is also a third blessing that comes from spending time alone with God. When we spend time alone with Him, this releases all God’s potential, His power, grace and anointing, all of which are so essential for doing work for the Kingdom of God. - Sunday Adelaja

Wondering why a person who has made the most of the wealth in own life through LUCK only; says, most often, to the people the most about the importance of HARD WORK in their lives. - Anuj Somany

Roads to SUCCESS are always under construction. You are work in progress. Keep growing and keep living. - Adedayo Olabamiji

What's God saying to you now? "All things are possible to him who worries?" No. "All things are possible to him who attempts to work it out?" No. "All things are possible to him who believes. --Man to Man: Chuck Swindoll Selects His Most Significant Writings for Men - Charles R. Swindoll

All their life, people work hard to earn money, and they never earn enough money to fulfill their dreams. Is this a paradox? - Saurabh Sharma

If you don’t plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between. - Ehab Atalla

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough. - Diana Gabaldon

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character. - Orrin Woodward

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."[on Twitter, July 17, 2012] - Scott Lynch

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. - Dale Carnegie

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost

In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived. - Jill Telford

You need to get all the information that is related to the work that the Lord has called you to do. - Sunday Adelaja

It's not a 9-5 job. It's an every moment you're awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you're doing. - Jeffrey Kalmikoff

On World Humanitarian Day 2014, thanks to ALL aid workers who carry or have carried out lifesaving work. Salute to our champions - Widad Akreyi

Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people. - Sally Mann

Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft... - Rasheed Ogunlaru

They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children. - Ann Richards

Food- the only thing that the fortunate ones put aside to satisfy their fancy dietary plans and work load while the less fortunate ones work to earn. - Adhish Mazumder

It always feels good and comforting to relax whilst there is work to be done but, it feels fulfilling to work hard, overcome slothfulness and challenges with tenacity and achieve your aim when you should have relaxed - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The real church is comprised of a long list of "formers" who collectively work together for world reform. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

If you want to work with people, then you have to know how to administrate, that is to organize them and lead them. - Sunday Adelaja

Finding your "self-culture" is hero's work. I liken it to the journey of a warrior who is preparing for battle. There is no violence in the battle, but there is a plan of attack and a methodology that you need to employ to complete the journey. Page 12 - Victoria Lorient-Faibish

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

THIS is why democracy doesn't work! Too much talking leads to not enough violence! - Maritza Campos

Every successful work of art is a collaboration between the known and the unknown. - Marty Rubin

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat. - Anastacia Oaikhena

Before you can make your dreams work, you have to get out of bed!! - Stephen Richards

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously. - Wayne W. Dyer

The integrity of the upright provides guiding principles that help him to achieve his vision. Hard work without integrity will lead to struggles and frustration - Prince Akwarandu

God gives grace for good work. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. - Jerome K. Jerome

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. - John Winthrop

Work for purpose, be for others. - Worknb

Work on." Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish. - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Miracle is going to WORK with you ,only if you are going to do same with Miracle..!! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

You get what you work for. - Mark Boyer

Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants. - Christy Hall

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire

By acknowledging spirit with gratitude, you bring it joy and give it more strength to do its work. - Russell Eric Dobda

The trick with getting Windows 10 to work well on my 2011 Windows 7 laptop computer was to use a HDMI cable and plug it into a full High Definition (HD) 1920x1080 resolution computer monitor at 60Hz as the sole display. - Steven Magee

The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix it again. Screw out the bolts of your life, examine and work on yourself, fix your life again and get going. - Israelmore Ayivor

Nah, Mike’s gonna stop by. He had to work late and he workswith this really cute chick and I just know he…. Alycia folded her armson her chest and pouted. She better be a blonde bimbo with a huge rackand no personality if he’s gonna cheat on me. - J.M. Colail

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time. - Bernard Meltzer

And watch two men washing clothes,one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Work is given to us by God as an instrument to multiply resources. - Sunday Adelaja

I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz's Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy. - Primo Levi

There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other. - Armin Hofmann

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J.M. Barrie

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. - Pope John Paul II

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. - Maria Montessori

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank

Success is possible to anyone who sets his heart to it. Whatever we dream of can become reality if we put ourselves to work. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Targets achieve by chasing adventures of works.Lets find one more adventures work. - maulikatma

Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth. - Vironika Tugaleva

But it’s still a big fight to get the work you’re really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, it’s a fucking scam of a magic trick. - Brandon S. Graham

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many people who work without living. - Charles Reynolds Brown

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. - Julie Andrews Edwards

Engage in the work that brings you joy. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it. - al-Hasan al-Basri

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.[Written to his wife, Mileva] - Albert Einstein

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves. - Ram Dass

A person who can think differently and truly on his feet will always find it difficult to sit and fit as an employee in a workplace, for his attitude & approach towards the work will often hit the ego of most co-workers who can’t compete with him on his level of wisdom and wit. - Anuj Somany

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. - Madonna

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. - Neil Gaiman

Whatever you do, put your inner work first. - Swami Chetanananda

Human mind & news Media work on the same principle: Unsatisfied with the past; worried about future; ignorant about the present moment. - Saurabh Sharma

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. - Maya Angelou

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . .

I look interesting in some people's faces, but.... I don't give a shit. I have work and I will work on it. - Deyth Banger

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary. - John Ruskin

Whatsoever you set your hands on doing, do it in such a way that your work will always stand out. - Dr. Bien Sufficient

There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are making a living. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful. - Adrian Tan

The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so they tried to do their best and give the best quality to God by giving the best quality to man. - Sunday Adelaja

When you love your work then it isn't work, it's your love affair. - Debasish Mridha

Let the readers do some of the work themselves - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The people in your life should always be more important than the work you do. - C.S. Woolley

My worth is not based on the ‘work of my hands’ despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am the ‘work of God’s hands. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

It takes work to increase and multiply every resource we see around us. - Sunday Adelaja

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - Indira Gandhi

The people you work with are just people you were thrown together with. Y'know, you don't know them, it wasn't your choice. And yet you spend more time with them thanyou do your friends or your family. - Tim Canterbury

You must work hard to get what you want. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If u wanna be bright future.. you have to work hard today - Prasanth KPS

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people. - Doris Egan

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival. - Chaim Potok

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. - Steve Jobs

God gave us the grace and ability to work, because it is only through work we can resolve national issues. - Sunday Adelaja

A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration. - VIRGIL PROFEANU

Time always change what worked for you today will not work for you tomorrow. - Kishore Bansal

Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day. - John Piper

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever. - C.S. Woolley

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. - Ha Jin

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. - Adrienne Rich

The only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary. - Ralph Nader

Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says. - C.J. Langenhoven

Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts. - Dr. Myles Munroe

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy. - Bob Ross

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. - Lawrence Clark Powell

We work hard to ensure an increase in investment, income, profit, savings, etc. - Sunday Adelaja

There is nothing that works out for the worst that won't work out for the better. - Karldon Okruta

Luther looks at all the jobs that are out there and he says, These are the masks of God, behind which He wants to remain concealed, and do all things. Christians have to be profoundly appreciative of good work done on absolutely everything. - Timothy J. Keller

All the so-called secrets of success will not work unless you do. - Anonymous

Mourning never really ends, only as time goes on, as we do our work, it may erupt less frequently. - Ruth Davis Konigsberg

When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. - William Shakespeare

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work. - Criss Jami

I don't want to become obsessed with work or money or change any of the values I have now. I don't have reason to believe that I ever should change, as much as I have this feeling of urgency to pursue my dreams... - Tanya Kimberly Orme

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. - James Reston Jr.

101 Reasons Why its great to be a woman : We have three times the amount of potential sick leave. Take into account all those days you are unable to work owing to pre, during and post menstrual tension. - Summersdale Publishers

Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life. Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come. What matters is how you tackle them, work your way around or find your way through them. - Roopleen

She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say. - Kami Garcia

You got a gun, you don't have to work out. - Chris Rock

It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time...when I knew words would be my life's work - Margaret Edson

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. - Henry Ford

So unsirious work... I behave nice because I want people to behave in the same way with me. - Deyth Banger

Work for a cause,Not for applause.Live life to express,Not to impress. - Unknown

in a relationship that is successful, communication has to be totally open and honest, without judgement or anger. and before you end a relationship that is very important to you, you have to be able to say to yourself that you seeked every avenue to make it work. - Anonymous

Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, & work together against those that choose to destroy it. - Jack Barker

I wondered if there was anything [the doctor] could do to to make the pain disappear and my arms work again. I wondered if I was going to get any worse than I already was. If so, I wondered if he could fix that, too. - Jennifer Starzec

Our work is not to become unique. We are unique. Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure and to allow the inner whisper that says come hither to be reason enough to go. - Vironika Tugaleva

Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Bees will not work except in darkness;Thought will not work except in Silence;neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy. - Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble – Silence

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything. - Vince Lombardi Jr.

You can make it right, just faith the future and work towards it - oladosu feyikogbon

All natural laws retain the balance contained within the scope of that law, no man made law can do this. It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society then to create man made laws that will not work. - R.A.Delmonico

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art. - Amy Leigh Mercree

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work towards a goal, but try not to visualize the successful result: if you don’t achieve success, you will be disappointed; if you do achieve success, you will already have experienced it in your mind’s eye. - Clifford Cohen

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. - John Locke

You can steal someone's work but you can't steal the experience that he has gained from that work. - Rumman Bin Sadiq

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived. - Jill Telford

All dreams are possible, if we work and wait for the manifest. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Leprechauns are not twee beings dreamed up by the tourist board, but warriors of legend. That name comes from the Celtic god of commerce and war, Lugh. Their mission, their life’s work, is to protect the gold. What better way to hide it than to become a joke, a story nobody takes seriously? - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad

make only your trust in God; His author must surely finish his work. Hold on! - oladosu feyikogbon

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom. - Djuna Barnes

I saw under the sun the place of judgement, …that wickedness was there; And the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. …I said in mine heart, 'Who shall judge the righteous and the wicked:' for there is a time for every purpose and for every work. - Compton Gage

When you gain maximum knowledge in any area of work and put it into practice, no powerwill be able to hinder you achieving your set goals. - Sunday Adelaja

We work in the best of our abilities. - Lailah Gifty Akita

All happiness depends on courage and work. - Honoré de Balzac

Everything big, once started little. Discipline yourself and work to become an excellent person at what you want. Stretch yourself daily and go a little further than yesterday. Growth is the key to winning success. - Mark LaMoure

If you give your work life, your work will give you life. Vies-versa - Maria Renteria

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~ - Sharon O'Brien

Learn to work on your work. - David Bayles and Ted Orland

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. - Rebecca West

If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. - L. M. Montgomery

When you step up to success, use hard work and excellence as your rocket for winning and achievement. - Mark F. LaMoure

I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway. - Wallace Wang

To get to know yourself better, examine what you really want from life and become true to yourself, Be clear and honest and work hard to make it. - Auliq Ice

Why just work and live for a happy retirement? Why not work and live for a happy life? - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Love your work. Such disposition prays God bless such a 'love - Priyavrat Thareja

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. - David McCullough

, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: "You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don't find time to practice, one of the three is missing. - Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel

Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do. - Jim George

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out. - Gordon B. Hinckley

Many people over forty have at least one health condition that affects their ability to work a forty hour work week effectively. Human Resources (HR), doctors and governments have known this fact for decades. - Steven Magee

Passion is the fuel for excellence. Rest, vacation or a payrise can't make you create excellence in your work. Findbwhat makes you passionate about what you do - Janna Cachola

People can easily forget how fast you did your work, but can hardly forget how well you did it. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. - Alfred Hitchcock

It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work. - Therone Shellman

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that. - George Carlin

Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day. - Gretchen Rubin

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state. - Robert Henri

Let your autobiography contain these words; "I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently". Thinking, loving and working are what make us different from animals and trees. - Israelmore Ayivor

One of the greatest disconnects for this generation is how life and work fit together. There is a need to talk about purpose in life, vocation, and calling. We need to provide a stronger theology of work to help them make integrated connections to their daily lives. - David Kinnaman

Keep focusing on God and all things will work out. - Ray S. Jones

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. - Steve Jobs

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. - Jeanette Winterson

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. - Frederick Douglass

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. - Stephen Hawking

must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments! Niels Bohr - You

Violence is avoided, when we sit down with others, and discuss issues, and work together for solutions. - Ellen J. Barrier

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work. - Louis C.K.

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance... - Edgar Degas

Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting. - Shannon L. Alder

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world. - Arundhati Roy

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.` - Calvin Coolidge

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If worries begin, then realize that the task at hand is going to be disturbed and if worries do not occur, then know that the task will not be disturbed. Worries are obstacles to the work. - Dada Bhagwan

It's so difficult to express in word as how it feels bad to go to bed in the night after the whole day work, done sincerely, does not yield any good result. - Anuj Somany

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead. - Chuck Palahniuk

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself. - Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

I spent most of my life trying to specialize myself. I went to theater school, film school, music school, mime school ... Finally, I was able to gather enough knowledge to build the confidence to create my own work, that goes utterly against the sense of specialization. - Nuno Roque

I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world. - Germany Kent

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized. - Drew Hayden Taylor

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation. - Russell Kirk

To spend your time trying to make your body flawless is to waste your time. Even if it appears to match some externalized ideals of perfection for a moment, your physical self will wrinkle and age. Work on your mind. Work on your legacy. - Vironika Tugaleva

If you're not satisfiedWith the work done by youMeans it has not done!!! - Harshit Vaishnav

The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved. - Rebecca Solnit

The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work. - Eric Gill

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation. - Samael Aun Weor

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. - Don Roff

The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world. - Dada Bhagwan

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of life. - Paulo Coelho

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. - Nelson Mandela

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. - Lawrence Durrell

It's good to vandalize one's own work. - John P. Sousa

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work. - Thomas Jefferson

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison

A good rest is half the work. - Yugoslav Proverb

We came to this earth to labour and work for increase, which would lead to possession. - Sunday Adelaja

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. - J. K. Rowling

Our churches are full of people during work hours, in the morning, at noon, in the evening praying, instead of being in the factories, libraries, and laboratories, facilitating economic growth. - Sunday Adelaja

Never judge a work of art by its defects - Washington Allston

Politics, like insurance, security, pharmaceutical and religious institutions all work the same. They sell the idea of a threat along with the antidote. Marketing 101. - Tarryn Tomlinson

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell? - Matt Groening

Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively. - Amit Kalantri

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. - Vaclav Havel

The accomplishment of your dreams will demand big sacrifice and hard work. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Medicine directly to the disease doesn't work, rather, the root cause needs to be diagnosed! Similarly the evil deeds of Man can never be fixed unless the evil heart behind it, is fixed at the first place! - Ajay Chandan

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be. - Faye Snyder

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it. - Bill Barich

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet. - Jennifer Elisabeth

When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B. - Joyce Rachelle

Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend. - John Adams

With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again. - Tori Spelling

When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you. - Sunday Adelaja

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them. - Una McCormack

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. - Charles Bukowski

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else. - Patricia Highsmith

Work hard to achieve your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. - J. R. R. Tolkien

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Life is too short to work so hard. - Vivien Leigh

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. - Robert Frost

You may have the greatest vision, plans or goals as you may term it. You can call it Vison 2020, Vision 2045 or whatever. But remember, not work is done unless a distance is covered! - Israelmore Ayivor

Dreams are horrible, to don't talk about nightmares they are more often. But there is always one gift from a person which you know is dead, that's how it works and it will continue to work. - Deyth Banger

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose? - Don Marquis

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. - Ernest Hemingway

But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. - Isaiah 64 8

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train - Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? - J. Paul Getty

The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.You are deciding your life right now. - Meg Ray

There's no such word as genius, it just the combination of hard work and determination. - Lyza Matociños

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.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. - Barbra Streisand

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. - Bette Davis

We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work. - Jayson Engay

You have to work for what you want. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I work for what I want. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. - George Orwell

Recognizing your own progress is a huge part of feeling motivated to do more. Your brain is a great tool for your success. It is hard at work and automating the new things you are doing even when you are taking a break. - Prince Akwarandu

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. - Evan Esar

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor. - Alexander Chee

There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Even if things do not work out as you thought they should for you, they do - in their own way, as they were meant to. - Fakeer Ishavardas

You may not be the smartest, or the fastest, or the most talented. But you CAN work the hardest. - Kevin J. Donaldson

No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it. - Richelle E. Goodrich

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein

Build your dreams on the foundation of hard work and faith; not trust. No one can take away from your hard work and belief but you can lose it all on trust. - Troy Gathers

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. - Jerome K. Jerome

You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work … You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success. - Chef Jiro

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow. - Orson Scott Card

Don't work only hard to make i in life.Always work smart. Because people who work hard only end up with that. - Uchenna Durugo

Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments. - Monica O Montgomery

Work like a slave; order like a king; create like a god. - Constantin Brancusi

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure. - Chekhov Anton

The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals. - Glenn Greenwald

Success demands consistent effort and hard work. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Work hard to play harder. - Linda Rawson

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben

The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands. - Euginia Herlihy

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. - Lao Tzu

I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his talents. - Johann Rudolf Wolf

If you are planning to work very hard, start working by screwing around! Lounge about at home; fool around in the streets or in the fields! Laziness will fill you with energy! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Diets don't really work & can be destructive, but if you get healthy overall (mind, body, spirit) then your weight balances naturally. - Jay Woodman

Work hard AND smart. - Mike Rowe

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. - Leonard Bernstein

Dream sets us on fire.Dream gives us direction.Dream betters our potential.Dream helps us prioritize.Dream adds value to our work andlife.Dream colors our future. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art. - Lana Del Rey

Work must not just be physical, we must teach our people that work is both mental, spiritual and physical. - Sunday Adelaja

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work. - Colette

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online. - Sara Sheridan

Work for what you want, pray for what you need and fight for what you've always dreamt about. - M. G. Dahlman

If being in the NOW doesn’t work, don’t worry as there is always another one tomorrow! - Stephen Richards

...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way. - Ted Conover

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. - Ernest Becker

With some money in your pocket you walk confidently, you talk confidently and you work confidently. - Amit Kalantri

Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you. - Auliq Ice

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work. - Sarah Rees Brennan

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. - Maria Montessori

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work. - Oprah Winfrey

...a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared it's nocturnal mysteries. - Julien Gracq

Years ago this was just a place where I was assigned to work. Today looking at this place represents the opportunity that God allowed me to see the beauty of His works. The difference in then and now - I guess our views are a representative of our growth. Thankful. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance - Pat Riley

My work has been always presented to me in front of others by creating a unique individual. - Tanmaya Guru

Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work. - Roopleen

No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything. - John Bloomfield Jervis

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me. - Susan B. Anthony

Positive energy, positive work. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess. - honeya

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good. - Jerry West

Work and Life are not separate spheres. They are integratedmoments in life that happen throughout the day. - Derric Yuh Ndim

No time for happiness, no time for sorrow. Work is the best of physicians. - Buddhadeva Bose

Be self-responsible. Be less dependent on other people. Aim at being the most responsible person you can be. Read about great, successful leaders. Learn to think great thoughts and work to be an excellent person. - Mark F. LaMoure

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment. - Robert Benchley

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories. - Don Roff

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears. - Simon Sinek

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same. - Al-Maʿarri

Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. - Doris Lessing

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy. - Richard Yates

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich. - Jim Carrey

One destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse. - Sunday Adelaja

Tears are the perspiration of our heart at work. - Michelle Muriel

We work best when we're unaware of working - Marty Rubin

Those who dream big, and work hard, can expect great success. - Ellen J. Barrier

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working. - Lisa Kudrow

Our great weariness comes from work not done. - Eric Hoffer

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair. - Roman Payne

A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby. - Amit Kalantri

Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real. - Robert Fanney

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work. - Kenneth W. Harl

Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work. - Bonnie Hamlin

Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. - Gallagher

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny. - Sam Donaldson

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925. - Frederick Lewis Donaldson

Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn’t feel so good today. - Rollo Romig

The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks. - Chinonye J. Chidolue

Work therefore is designed to release all this abundance of wealth hidden inside everything. - Sunday Adelaja

The work of memory collapses time. - Walter Benjamin

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. - Leonardo da Vinci

work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.} J.J. Thomson - His

It is good to know that every single title/rank you hold is earned in a high cost of hard work, not some random self given title/rank. - Euginia Herlihy

The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works - Sunday Adelaja

For god sake, don't put limits on your life. Do what you want, work on what you want and don't listen to people - which haven't succeeded what you want to succeed. - Deyth Banger

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it’s more important to learn to work with what you’ve got, under the circumstances you’ve been given, than wishing for different ones. - Charlotte Eriksson

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open. - Bill Viola

If you work your hardest, and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands. - Chrostoph Morris

As long as there is Fear, Faith is not to be found.Believe the finished work of Christ. Rise Up to Faith! - Pazaria Smith

Life does not work for people who don’t like to change. - Sunday Adelaja

When you have knowledge, patience, and passion, and pair those with hard work, you will find success -- but don’t ever forget about kindness. - Adam Smith

Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness. - Nadine C. Keels

Making a home is hard work, and for some reason it's underappreciated. It's way to make sense of things. - Erin Boyle

My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning. - Amandla Stenberg

Like your tastebuds, desires and goals are ever-changing. What used to work, might not do it for you anymore. The question is: Do you have the guts to do something about it? - C. Nzingha Smith

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books. - Douglas Adams

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die. - Edward M. Kennedy

For those who love what they do, even working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week is not work at all. It is just fun.- - RVM

The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social interactions are required. - Cindy Ann Peterson

Arise and do thy sacred work. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Being useful should be in our blood.If not than we must work hard to own it. - Sonia Bria

When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. - Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell. - Tahereh Mafi

You can create absolutely new reality, both in your personal and professional life and with the same people, by altering your perception towards life, and by putting necessary work into it. - Roshan Sharma

Let your work show off for you and not your ego. - Unarine Ramaru

There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy. - Sean Stewart

There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time. - Coco Chanel

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. - Albert Einstein

The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining self-knowledge or understanding one’s true nature but rather how at some point you can see most plainly that this is what you do, this is how you fit in the wider ecology - Chang-rae Lee

Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I've heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad. - Gary Krist

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself. - Jacob Nordby

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi

A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own. - Adam Smith

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve. - Theodora Goss

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castaneda

One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one’s work. - Leo Tolstoy

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. - Bette Davis

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best. - Napoleon Hill

Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader’s life. - Gary Rohrmayer

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it. - Ayn Rand

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

I'm from Iowa, I only work in space.

Don't do things half-assed. If a thing is worth doing at all, it's worth doing as well as you can possibly do it. Pick out something you think is worthwhile and do it or work at it with passion. Do it with all your might.

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work. - Michelle M. Pillow

Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you... Successful people don't simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work. - Win Borden

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. - John Ruskin

Mr.Holmes is another sad work unfortunately. - Deyth Banger

If it doesn't work, get better, and try again. - Daniel Vlcek

Why is it that we feel bad when all we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work. - Dillon Burroughs

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. - Jim Hightower

The term "work" is getting thrown around as though everyone seems to be doing so. The question is, working for what? Every time I am at work, it means I am getting closer to my goal. Once you have the vision, you work towards it. - J.R. Rim

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both. - Tiffany Madison

School means work and work means death. Let's all go take a nap. - Emma Shannon

Don't think that this people are stupid, probably you have caught one, but you didn't finish your work and what now???You were in their trap... - Deyth Banger

There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of Christ. The more a person counts as loss his own righteousness and lays hold by faith of the righteousness of Christ, the more he'll be motivated to live and work for Christ. - Jerry Bridges

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie

Wishes don't bring riches; work make things work. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The most beautiful work of art that we can create is this life. - Kristi Bowman

Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective. - Debasish Mridha

your lack of hard work fails your destiny and not the destiny fails you. - irrfan ishaq

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser

But you have to realize that it doesn't matter how your films are going to stack up against other people's. You have to stop whining about it and just get to work. Just do it. Because in the work is your existence. That's what you're here for.

Minority of people are destined for success while majority succeed because they are determined for success. Where upon, work hard in silence and let success make the noise . - Osunsakin Adewale

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. - Jim Rohn

If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work. - Sunday Adelaja

It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence. - Vironika Tugaleva

People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work. - Amit Kalantri

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. - Vladimir Nabokov

Stop and say something good about yourself! Believe what you have just said! Pray for what you have just believed! Have faith for what you just prayed for! Work out that faith! ...and surely goodness and mercy shall follow you! - Israelmore Ayivor