Top 100 Quotes About Life Work
#1. You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done ... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
Will Rogers
#2. Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.
Camila Alves
#3. In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.
John Van Hamersveld
#4. I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.
Robert Pattinson
#5. Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
Henry Wriston
#6. If you're worried about life-work balance, something is probably wrong with your life or your work. Instead of agonizing over balance, get excited and create change.
Chris Guillebeau
#7. All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
Saint Francis De Sales
#8. My children are the thing that make life work because, you know, I screwed up my life, and I know it was me, and it was really hard because it was so public, and that was very, very hard.
Kimberly Quinn
#9. Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden
#10. In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
#11. For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.
George Allen
#12. Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states.
Frederick Lenz
#14. I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.
Mary Hart
#15. The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Bizarrely funny ... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.
Janet Maslin
#17. Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.
Brennan Manning
#18. I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.
D.H. Lawrence
#19. Our ultimate finishing line in life is death! Whilst you have life, work hard and trust God!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
Amy Carmichael
#21. So now, out of desperation, I'm back to prayer. I'm back to prayer, sheepishly, because I couldn't make my life work without it. I pray out of sheer lack of options.
Shauna Niequist
#22. We can't always make life work. But we can always draw near to God. There is a different way to approach our problems. There is a NEW WAY to live.
Larry Crabb
#23. I think a good life-work balance is important, and that's even more important in some cases on the space station.
Scott Kelly
#24. That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea
both of us calm
and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life Work ... when death
black waves!
no longer courts me and I can smile, constantly, at everything because, my bones, there will be so little of myself left to give it.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#25. I assure you, there needs to be no place on Earth where people cannot have access to clean, pure water - and whatever else is needed to "make life work" - if the people of Earth simply cared enough about each other.
Neale Donald Walsch
#26. Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.
Don Tapscott
#27. Let me ... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
Woodrow Wilson
#28. Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.
Alan Cohen
#29. Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.
Thomas Moore
#30. I'm going to make my life work for me. I'm not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It's my life, which means I get to choose how it goes. Even if that means wrestling it to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying: Take that, life!
Sophie Kinsella
#31. Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities ... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.
Henrietta Mears
#32. I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.
Richard Diebenkorn
#33. To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though the first may be, the second is the harder longer road. But every man seeks the woman of the dream, and only the best of men finds what he seeks.
Rosalind Miles
#34. Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible
Theodore Roosevelt
#35. You eat shit most your life, work, sweat, and bleed for anything you could get the rest of it, and you know sweet when you taste it.
Kristen Ashley
#36. A good river is nature's life work in song.
Mark Helprin
#37. I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby.
Mikhail Prokhorov
#38. Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
Terry McMillan
#39. Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.
Nathaniel Branden
#40. We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.
Atul Gawande
#41. I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
Bruce Barton
#42. I have known tragedy, extreme physical difficulty, and the frustration of just trying to make my life "work." I was in an abyss so deep that I wondered if I could ever get out of it.
Karen Henson Jones
#43. Nebraskans know the true meaning of life ... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.
Jason Peter
#44. Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps
#45. You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.
Phil McGraw
#46. When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!
Natalie Massenet
#47. Progress starts with envisioning a new (yet old) lifestyle with the home as central to all aspects of life-work and leisure, food and energy. So, real progress means bringing the economy, beginning with the food economy, home again.
Jules Dervaes
#48. If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
Stephen Covey
#49. There is a satisfaction we don't want to come to until we come to it in God ... [Disappointments] serve to remind us every day that we cannot make life work the way we want ... If we'll let it, the disappointment can be God's way of continually drawing us back to himself.
John Eldredge
#50. The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#52. Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .
Frederick Lenz
#53. With the right hunch, you could read the inflection of an author's soul on a single comma, in one sentence, and from that one sentence seize the whole book, his life work.
Andre Aciman
#54. I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!
Jessica Valenti
#55. There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.
Seth Godin
#56. Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.
Ellen G. White
#57. Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.
Mark Bradford
#58. I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.
Jonathan Carroll
#59. Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#60. Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
Margaret Atwood
#61. RVM Thoughts for Today
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.
R.v.m.
#63. People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.
Felix Dennis
#65. But it's not enough to just "discover" the meaning of life. What really matters is whether we live according to our values, and that takes hard work and a hundred hard choices every day.
Greg M. Epstein
#67. In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.
Elena Ferrante
#68. 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
#69. To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.
Joan Lunden
#70. The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Lucas Grabeel
#71. O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#72. What is done unto people is also being done unto God
Sunday Adelaja
#73. You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.
Anton Du Beke
#74. If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.
Rory McCann
#75. Focus on quality of life, and enjoy a life worth living. Researchers have said that only 4% of people enjoy both their work and their personal life.
Gary Lockwood
#76. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.
Gregory Benford
#77. We should be selfless in our practice as believers
Sunday Adelaja
#78. So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
Sheryl Sandberg
#79. You become a candidate for God's love when you are rejected by people
Sunday Adelaja
#80. You just realize at the end of the day, everyone is going to have their opinion on your life, more and more so as you go along. As long as you're getting to work and be a part of it - still having fun, learn to just not sweat it so much and keep doing the things you love.
Dianna Agron
#81. I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.
Alan Ball
#82. Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#83. To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning.
Auliq Ice
#84. One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.
M.H. Rakib
#85. If my life can inspire people, then a television show where guests talk about their challenges and what makes them unique would work.
Anupam Kher
#86. The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.
Herman Wouk
#87. The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#88. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.
Rosen Topuzov
#90. Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.
Bernie Glassman
#91. God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.
Susan L. Taylor
#92. You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.
Douglas Coupland
#93. My best advice for
you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work
like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll
make a wonderful life.
Doris Betts
#95. Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!
Joyce Meyer
#96. To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.
Richard Misrach
#97. You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.
James Franco
#98. The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.
John Garamendi
#99. Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.
Siobhan Davies
#100. The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
Hillary Clinton
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