Top 100 Wisdom Work Quotes
#1. A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
Joseph Joubert
#2. Think twice as much as others.
Study twice as much as others.
Work twice as much as others.
Give twice as much as others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#3. The wisdom of the journeyman is to work one day at a time and he always said that any job even if it took years was made up out of a day's work. Nothing more. Nothing less. That was hard for me to learn. I always wanted to be finished. In the concept of a day's work is rythme and pace and wholeness.
Cormac McCarthy
#4. If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.
Black Hawk
#6. New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.
New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;
Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness ... .
There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in
Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
Christopher Morley
#7. The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Edward M. Kennedy
#9. In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism
Amit Kalantri
#10. You don't need to blow the trumpet when you accomplished something because your work, your action will speak itself.
Euginia Herlihy
#11. You can only gain the benefit of something when you invest and spend time
Sunday Adelaja
#12. You may lose again and again ... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.
Khem Veasna
#13. The only conscience we can trust to is the massive sense of wrong in a class, and the best wisdom that will work is the wisdom of balancing claims. That's my text - which side is injured? I support the man who supports their claims, not the virtuous upholder of the wrong.
George Eliot
#15. When we all work together for love, for unity,
there will be friendship, happiness, and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#16. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville
#17. Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
#18. Anyone who doesn't focus on Jesus Christ and His finished work has neither the wisdom of God nor the power of God ...
Joseph Prince
#19. 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
#21. Wisdom comes from experience, either the experience of others or of oneself. And to let experience do its work, a person has to be open to receiving the lessons that it has to teach.
Henry Cloud
#22. I told you, knowledge is our Holy Grail, and I daresay the wisdom possessed by the vampire would boggle your imagination. You see, we don't have political allegiances to worry about, or religion, or differing mores. We all work together for one purpose: to further our achievements and our learning.
Michael Talbot
#23. You can never grow when you don't place value on time
Sunday Adelaja
#24. Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people
Sunday Adelaja
#25. Find solitude and discover ways to add value to yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#26. And for most of that time, wisdom has had to work in secret, whispering her words, moving like a spy through the humble places of the world while the courts and palaces are occupied by her enemies.
Philip Pullman
#27. To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time
Sunday Adelaja
#28. So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.
Nirmala Srivastava
#29. Limiting beliefs and thoughts are created in the mind. These mental blocks must be cleared to be happy. Only then the loving wisdom of the soul will open.
Hina Hashmi
#30. Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.
Robert Henri
#31. Create a goal and a purpose to live for, work for, and die for.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Don't allow the demands of work load; make you lose touch with life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. 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
#36. The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work.
Kenneth Ring
#37. 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
#38. Sacred souls experience sleepless nights. It is enormous strength for specific sacred work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. 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.
George MacDonald
#41. The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time
His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding.
Elisabeth Elliot
#42. No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless.
Isabella MacDonald Alden
#43. If you are not happy with the work you do, change it
Anamika Mishra
#44. The time you utilize doing something determines how good the product will be
Sunday Adelaja
#45. Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow's edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#46. Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
#47. Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither you go.
Ray Looker
#48. Work with "what is" rather than "what if" and you will move towards "what can be.
Melanie Greenberg
#50. The art of work ... It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.
Wilferd Peterson
#52. Investing time in adding value to yourself is the best way to invest time
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Patricia Sun is a solar light of consciousness whose wisdom rays cover the world. Everywhere I travel through out the earth, I find people whose lives have been enhanced and transformed by her luminous work.
Jean Houston
#54. Many people know they're working, but not what they're working.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#56. Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you
Sunday Adelaja
#57. As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
Sharon Salzberg
#58. You will surely succeed in life with great passion and desire for self-study.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#59. God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.
Ellen G. White
#61. The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)
Vineet Nayar
#62. 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
#63. Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.
Mahesh Babu
#68. Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is
so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
Robert A. Heinlein
#69. Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
Benjamin Disraeli
#70. God does not expect us to work hard, he expects us to work smart.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#71. It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes. And, at the opening and closing of each mission, we get their blessing in a spirit of dependence.
Vincent De Paul
#74. I have found that great people do have in common ... an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
Yousuf Karsh
#76. You need to use the instrument that the people desire to captivate them back to things that are right
Sunday Adelaja
#77. Many say "What goes up must come down." I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important to remember that "What goes up ... must have started some place." #workhard
Jayce O'Neal
#78. 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
#79. The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.
Carole Maso
#80. 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
#83. Whether it be training, dieting, working out, or work ethic, for every great excuse "Not" to do something, there are 100 "better" reasons for you to do it.
Mark W. Boyer
#86. A memoir is a work of sustained narrative prose controlled by an idea of the self under obligation to lift from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform the event, deliver wisdom.
David Shields
#87. We can learn to work with them, understand them, find meaning in them, make critical choices, and use their energies to grow in strength, wisdom, and compassion.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#88. We can order him to make appointments and talk to someone, but we can't force him to actually do the work. You've got to be willing to work on your issues. You've got to be willing to face hard truths and fight to get better. that takes courage and force of will. (Anita)
Laurell K. Hamilton
#89. SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.
Dave Barry
#90. My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.
Ram Dass
#91. The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
Paul Simon
#92. you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#93. Dangerously close to having to work for a living.
Rosen Topuzov
#94. New Self, New World is an extraordinary work - an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world's great wisdom traditions and the majestic individuals who have experienced them. This book is about achieving the highest dimensions of which humans are capable. Highly recommended.
Larry Dossey
#95. The next thing to do after discovering who you are is to build and add value to yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#96. In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#97. Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say
Vivian Gornick
#98. Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively
Sunday Adelaja
#99. Wasting time is when seconds, minutes and hours are passing without being converted
Sunday Adelaja
#100. Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.
Idries Shah
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