Quotes #15: Do What You Love and The
Money Will Follow: "Life, it'sa Work an' You Earn-a 'Bout $14.95 a Day"("Guido Sarducci")
That was because most of my work experience could be summed up by the famous quote from the movie "Ben Hur": "We keep you alive to service this ship. Row well and live." It took me a long time to find out that "work can be play for which you get pay". Work is Like Life - It is What You Make It "Take this Job and Shove
It" "Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. "WARNING TO ALL PERSONNEL: "Employees are the rungs on the ladder of
success. "I love my job, it' s the work I hate." "Hardly a competent workman can be found who does
not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just
how slowly he can work and still convince his employer
that he is going at a good pace." "There is no substitute under the heavens for
productive labor. It is the process by which dreams
become realities. It is the process by which idle visions
become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently
lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather
loaf than work. A little play and a little loafing are
good. But it is work that spells the difference in the
life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and
utilizing the skills of our hands that life us from
mediocrity." ". . . there is no more dreadful punishment than
futile and hopeless labor." "Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't
now enjoy and for no end that you can now
appreciate." "We have too many people who live without
working. We have too many more who work without living.
At some point in our 'career' we must choose between
living to work and working to live…" "More men are killed by overwork than the
importance of the work justifies." "He worked like hell in the country so he could
live in the city, "If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are
you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively
and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your
job is only as big as you are." "Life is just a dirty four-letter word:
W-O-R-K." "A bad day of vacation is better than a good day
at work." "Opportunity is missed by most people because it
is dressed in overalls and looks like work." "Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it
should be encouraged." "The world is filled with willing people... "Many hands make light work." "Hard work spotlights the character of people:
some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and
some don't turn up at all." "The world is full of wishing-folks, Who sit and
dream and smile, "Work relieves us from three great evils,
boredom, vice, and want." "A classical education…enables you to
despise the wealth that it prevents you from
achieving." "The work of the individual still remains the
spark that moves mankind forward." "My experience has taught me, and it has become a
principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give
out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or
anything else. If they are able-bodied and can work and
earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for
them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon
it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community
in the world and make them idlers." "Just because something works doesn't mean it is
desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is
to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about
is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about
your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter
how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your
desires and how you define… work. So it's not
whether it works, but whether we like the way it
works." "You're Job's a Joke, You're Broke…" "No labor, however humble, is dishonoring." "Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon
overtakes him." "If you cannot work with love but only with
distaste, it is better that you should leave your
work." "If you do not feel yourself growing in your work
and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is
not a perpetual tonic to you, "Without work, all life goes rotten. But when
work is soulless, life stifles and dies." "Work and play are words used to describe the
same thing under differing conditions." "When you cease to make a contribution, you begin
to die." "If I rest, I rust." "It is better to wear out than to rust out."
"Work your way up or rust your way out." "Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men
disgrace labor." "Laziness may appear attractive but work gives
satisfaction." "I never did anything by accident, nor did any of
my inventions come by accident; they came by work." "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself
into some work you believe in with all your heart, live
for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you
had thought could never be yours." "Thank God every morning that you have something
to do that day which must be done; whether you like it or
not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will
breed in you temperance and self control; diligence and
strength of will; cheerfulness and content; and a hundred
virtues which the idle never know." "And It Gets You Nowhere to Tell Them 'Know'!" "How is it that the fable ever originated of
God's having cursed man with the doom of toil? How
is it that men have ever been blind to the exceeding
profitableness of labor, even for it's own sake, whose
moral harvest alone - industry, economy, patience,
foresight, knowledge - is in itself an exceeding great
reward, to which add the physical blessings which wait
on this universal law - health, strength, activity,
cheerfulness, the content that springs from honest
exertions, and the lawful pride that grows from
conquered difficulty." (Kemble supported herself
most of her life by her talent alone... This amazing
book is a look at slavery as it really was! - EM) "No true work since the world began was ever
wasted; no true life since the world began has ever
failed. Oh, understand those two perverted words, failure
and success and measure them by the eternal, not the
earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome,
unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter,
one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to
wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to
expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was
that a failure?" (I think not… - EM) "Work for the fun of it, and the money will
arrive some day." "The work praises the man." "As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my
work." "Success is the ability to go from failure to
failure without losing your enthusiasm." "If you don't have the time to do it right, where
do you think you're going to find the time to do it
over?" "There's no labor a man can do that's undignified
- if he does it right." "Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole
soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the
instant he sets himself to work." "My mother drew a distinction between achievement
and success. She said 'achievement is the knowledge that
you have studied and worked hard and done the best that
is in you. Success is being praised by others. That's
nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim
for achievement and forget about success.'" "Desires are of value only when they drive us to
action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high
resolve is born. Desire is the design - Will spurs us
into achievement -- Work achieves." "If you have built castles in the air, your work
need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put
foundations under them." "All growth depends upon activity. There is no development
physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence...
the only true measure of civilization."
"The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in
our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that
touches the life of each family member so that this
eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives."
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough
to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be
generous, frank and independent." "Working for the MAN Every Night and Day…" "I look on that man as happy, who, when there is
question of success, looks into his work for a
reply." "If the power to do hard work is not a skill,
it's the best possible substitute for it." "I have always thought that one man of tolerable
abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great
affairs among mankind. If he first forms a good plan,
and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that
would divert his attention, make the execution of that
same plan his sole study and business… The way to
wealth . . . depends chiefly on two words, industry and
frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money." "Many successful people are no more talented than
unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in
the old axiom that successful people do those things that
unsuccessful people don't like to do." "The law of success, here and hereafter, is to
have a humble and prayerful heart, and to work, work,
WORK." "Begin where you are; work where you are; the
hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off
success, may be crowded with grand possibilities." "He that would have fruit must climb the
tree." "The heights by great men reached and kept. Were
not obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their
companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night."
"If talent doesn't work hard, hard work beats
talent." "When I was a young man I observed that nine out
of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a
failure, so I did ten times more work." "I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of
work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry
and dissipation." "Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret.
That is why I win." "The harder you work, the luckier you get." "Most of the important things in the world have
been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all." "We Say It's a Revolution. You Know! We're Gonna Change the World" "Most people do not have wealth without toil,
though some are very fortunate to earn their subsistence
by doing what they want to do. They are fortunate because
although they may think they are working for a living,
they are really not. They are engaged in leisure-work and
getting paid for it. They would continue to do exactly
what they are doing if wealth were secured for
them." "The secret of joy in work is contained in one
word - excellence. "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot
work with love but only with distaste, it is better that
you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the
temple and take alms of those who work with joy." "When love and skill work together, expect a
masterpiece." "To each man is reserved a work which he alone
can do." "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." "... work well-done does good to the man who does
it." "The highest reward for a man's toil is not what
he gets for it "Welcome the task that makes you go beyond
yourself." "Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of
results. I know several thousand things that won't
work." "I don't have hobbies. I have passions." "And only the Master shall praise us, and only
the Master shall blame; "Nice Work if You Can Get it… If You Get It, Won't You Tell Me How?" "Don't be afraid to give your best to what
seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it
makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs
well, the big ones will tend to take care of
themselves." "Every man's work, whether it be literature, or
music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is
always a portrait of himself." "Every job is a self-portrait of the person who
did it. Autograph your work with excellence." "Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit
first sees its natural lineaments. "People forget how fast you did a job - but they
remember how well you did it." "People who never do any more than they get paid
for never get paid for any more than they do." "Making a success of the job at hand is the best
step toward the kind you want." "People are not the best because they work hard,
they work hard because they are the best." "Give the best you have to the highest you
know... and do it now." "Work as if you were to live a hundred years,
pray as if you were to die tomorrow." "Work like you don't need the money, love like
you've never been hurt, dance like there's nobody
watching." "The highest reward that God gives us for good
work is the ability to do better work." "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he
should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or
Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He
should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven
and earth will pause to say, here lived a great
streetsweeper who did his job well." "When you are in any contest you should work as
if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to
lose it." "Golf is like everything else in life--you get
out of it what you put into it.." "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it
into small jobs." "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the
gift is nothing without the work." "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never
tried anything new." "Trouble is only opportunity in work
clothes." "If you want something done, ask a busy person to
do it. "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that
don't work." "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." "Nobody ever lost his shirt when his sleeves were
rolled up. However much we guard ourselves against it, we
tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as
the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of
ourselves in their words." "The work will teach you how to do it." "Genius is one percent inspiration and
ninety-nine percent perspiration." "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." "If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel
you to despair. Few things is impossible to diligence and
skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but
perseverance." "You can't build a reputation on what you are
'going' to do." "Anyone who says something is impossible is
always being interrupted by someone doing it." "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is
not enough; we must do." "DRIVERS WANTED: To Travel Along the Road of Dreams" "What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to
steer by?" "A man must drive his energy, not be driven by
it." "The world stands aside to let anyone pass who
knows where he is going." "Things may come to those who wait, but only the
things left by those who hustle." "The answers to three questions will determine
your success or failure. "One is always seeking the touchstone that will
dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a
craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact
that there is none except hard work, concentration, and
continued application." "The reward of a thing well done is to have done
it." "Before water turns to steam, it must have 212 of
heat; 200 will not do it. Water must boil to generate
enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not
run anything; lukewarmness will not generate life's
work." "And it ought to be remembered that there is
nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to
conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take
the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have
done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm
defenders in those who may do well under the new. This
coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who
have the laws on their side, and partly from the
incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new
things until they have had a long experience of them.
Thus it happens that whenever those who are hostile have
the opportunity to attack they do it like partisans,
whilst the others defend lukewarmly..." "A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just
that it can't buzz any slower." "Like the bee, we should make our industry our
amusement." "It's not so much how busy you are, but why you
are busy. "Well done is better is than well said." "I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's
impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half
the time they come true." "Work As Play for Which You Get Pay!" "Choose a job you love and you'll never have to
work a day in your life." "Where our work is, there let our joy be." "Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate
it." "I never practice; I always play." "I never did a day's work in my life, it was all
fun." "I never worked a day in my life. It's not work
when you love what you're doing." "Fun is when you enjoy what you're doing; "The man who does not work for the love of work
but only for money… "Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work worth doing." "Beauty is also to be found in a day's
work." "Happiness consists in activity... it is a
running stream, not a stagnant pool." "Blessed is he who has found his work; let him
ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose.
He has found it and he will follow it." "You got to like your work. You have got to like
what you are doing, you have got to be doing something
worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile,
that it makes a difference, don't you see?" "A man at work, making something which he feels
will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is
exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as
of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he
works." "You Lighten My Days & Fill My Nights With Song" "God has created me to do him some definite
service; He has committed some work to me which he has
not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may
know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.
I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a
bond of connection between persons. He has not created me
for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall
be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own
place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His
commandments and serve Him in my calling." "Remember that your work comes only moment by
moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives
the strength to do it." "Your profession is not what brings home your
paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth
to do… with such passion and such intensity that it
becomes spiritual in calling. " "God has created us to love and to be loved, and
this is the beginning of prayer - to know that he loves
me, that I have been created for greater things." "Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and
speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed
at their faces, lest I confound thee before them."
......"For, behold, I have made thee this day a
defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls
against the whole land, against the kings of Judah,
against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof,
and against the people of the land." "Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our
God would count you worthy of His calling, and fulfil all
the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith
with power:" "Destiny speaks for itself, whispering the
knowledge of yesterday, by calling the future
today." "It is never too late to be what you might have
been." "Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself
with others. "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." "Every calling is great when greatly
pursued." "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. "And the Greatest Work of All Is…" "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and
importance and should be undertaken with
excellence." "Every noble work is at first impossible." "A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that
handled stress exceptionally well." "Thinking is the hardest work there is, "No one can arrive from being talented alone. God
gives talent; work transforms talent into genius." "Work, more and more, is about the lessons we
learn as we try to make a career grow: where to find
inspiration, how to make sense of ambiguity, how to take
risks, how to survive and thrive…" "No other success can compensate for failure in
the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a
united family is of greater value to God and future
humanity than any other riches. In such a home God can
work miracles and will work miracles. Love is the work we
all should be about doing." "There is always the danger that we may just do
the work for the sake of the work. This is where the
respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we
do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it
as beautifully as possible." "Love is a better master than duty." "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat
or drink or .... wear. Behold the fowls in the air: for
they sow not neither do they reap ... yet your Heavenly
Father feedeth them... Are ye not much better than
they?" "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." "If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be
there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a
smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful
work." "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which
have the potential to turn a life around." "If it is to be, it is up to me." |
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The first time I heard
the quote "Do What You Love and the
Money Will Follow?" I kept hearing the
song "I Don't Wanna Work"
playing in my mind.
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