Top 100 Work Wisdom Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
Anne Lamott
#5. As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
Sharon Salzberg
#6. Random thoughts that fly away.
Where words has no place to stay.
Let it be right where they are.
Let the work of art preserve its life.
Diana Rose Morcilla
#7. You will surely succeed in life with great passion and desire for self-study.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. Dance as if life is a work of art.
Dance as if life is a stage for a dance drama.
Debasish Mridha
#10. 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
#11. The sun doesn't live in England; it comes here on holiday when we're all at work.
Benny Bellamacina
#12. The most gratifying action plan that one can conceive is one that others deem unattainable only to be proven wrong.
Mark W. Boyer
#14. Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams
Smohalla
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.
Mahesh Babu
#18. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.
Thomas Huynh
#20. Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.
Richie Norton
#21. if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.
Swami Vivekananda
#24. Well, as the boys said, you had to work somewhere. So they accepted what there was. This was the wisdom of the slave.
Charles Bukowski
#26. No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
#29. Perhaps the problem is not that we didn't work well enough together, but that we worked to well. In fact, maybe if we hadn't worked so well together, we wouldn't be destroying the earth so rapidly.
Steve Van Matre
#30. Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.
Idries Shah
#31. Knowing what to do with time is the first step to take when you lose your job
Sunday Adelaja
#32. The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.
John Newton
#33. It's a wisdom that comes from seeing how things work. Things you want to happen always take a long time.' She pointed one little finger at the meech dragon and shook it in his face. 'You may read books and know bunches, but I have lived life longer than you.
Donita K. Paul
#34. Often tales of valiant deeds lighten the heart," said Brandegan. "They give hope, for they remind us that not all forces in the world work wickedness.
Julius Bailey
#37. We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman
#38. Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.
Brandi L. Bates
#41. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.
Idries Shah
#42. People can easily forget how fast you did your work, but can hardly forget how well you did it.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#43. God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.
J.I. Packer
#45. Investing time in adding value to yourself is the best way to invest time
Sunday Adelaja
#46. Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted
Sunday Adelaja
#48. We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.
Anne M. Chappel
#49. 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
#50. Many people know they're working, but not what they're working.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#51. The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.
Idries Shah
#52. Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.
Rutger Hauer
#54. She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.
Duff Brenna
#56. You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.
James Madison
#57. The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
Bridges McCall
#60. Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life you give so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#63. 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
#64. Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#65. 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
#66. Every true novelist listens for that suprapersonal wisdom, which explains why great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. Novelists who are more intelligent than their books should go into another line of work.
Milan Kundera
#68. Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.
Gary Rohrmayer
#69. If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
Edward Abbey
#70. 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
#71. The amount of time spent doing something is what adds value to it
Sunday Adelaja
#72. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. 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
#74. Creativity is the work of your hands or the work of your tongue so you have to be careful what you say because it would cost you big time.
Euginia Herlihy
#75. Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.
Gary L. Thomas
#76. You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.
Louise Colet
#80. A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal interest.
Khem Veasna
#81. 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
#83. There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.
Janice Marturano
#84. The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work your hands.
Euginia Herlihy
#85. What we desire, what we work for, or what we seek after, are those things that merely lead us along the paths of our lives.
Wu Wei
#86. 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
#88. You kill the biggest possible resource when you waste time
Sunday Adelaja
#89. Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.
Roopleen
#91. What slave work do you want me to do for you?" asked Diogenes when he had been bought.
"Be a teacher to my children," answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.
Tomichan Matheikal
#95. Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#97. You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time
Sunday Adelaja
#98. Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
Friedrich Schiller
#99. God does not expect us to work hard, he expects us to work smart.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#100. It is highly dangerous to receive the truths of the Bible with human wisdom, for this is a hidden and subtle method which invariably causes a believer to perfect with his flesh the work of the Holy Spirit.
Watchman Nee
