Work Quotes - Page 18

All work and no play will make you sad and grey!

Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope of history. But you're an inconsequential worm who makes shit up for a living, which means that you don't have to lift heavy boxes or ask people if they want fries with that. Grow up and get back to work.

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny!

Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won't pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body - or vagina - has to do the opposite.

Another reason it’s wise for a man to view his marriage and not his job as foundational to his life is the biblical idea of union with his wife. We’re called to work, but we’re never called to be in union with our jobs. However, a man is most assuredly called to be in union with his wife.

Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.

The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself...all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

Your emotions will wander like a vagabond when you're indebted. Those happy moments with friends will soon be interrupted with a frowning creditor in your sub-conscious, and all your frenzy will be taken aback.

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

You should never do everything for free because you won't be able to survive alone or in comfort. But you should never charge for everything or too much because neither will the people who are giving you the money.

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

You know those lists that get put together? ‘Top Ten Companies to Work For’ and that kinda thing? Yeah, you are so not helping this be one of those places.