Best work & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.”

Self Done Work Pure Sake Sheer Improving Toil Drudgery

Book:Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society

Source: Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society

“Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.”

People Way Self Spirit Enjoy Born Work Demand Determination Tasks Function Self Determination Entrepreneurial Mindless Dice Entrepreneurial Spirit Daily Tasks

Book:The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

Source: The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

“Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.”

Self Work Talismans

Author:Rosa Campbell Praed

“The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.”

Should Doe Real Self Remember Spiritual Lying Easy Difficult Goal Work Ordinary Tradition Contrary Vulnerability Openness Charisma Ascent Great Experiences Real Work

Author:Morris Berman

“Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.”

Ifs Knows Self Remember Work Fulfillment Self Fulfillment

Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.”

Humans Looks Ideas Self Hands Girl Work Boys Taught Activity Mouths Trade Workers Profession Impressed Dependence Human Activity Drones Hives

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.”

Want Years Children Self Purpose Work Sleep Pleasure Willing Comfort Activity Deny Ease Defeated Restless

Author:Ida Tarbell

“And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.”

Humans Self Change Work Consciousness Achieve Finals Preservation Extensions Self Preservation Human Consciousness

Book:Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.”

Made Said Self Helping Wanted Opportunity Work Saws Paid Raises Quitting Gas Stations Boss I Quit Gas Stations Self Service

Author:Steven Wright

“When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.”

Knows Self Work Limits Inner Self

Author:Matthew Fox

“No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.”

Self Done Work Doubt Sacrifice Fine Labor Concentration Toil Max Self Sacrifice Work Effort Without Sacrifice

Book:And Even Now

Source: And Even Now

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

Source: Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)

“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.”

Men Mind Self Life Is Evil Work Duty Guilt Rewards Strikes Pursuit Doctrine Creeds Dogma

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.”

“Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.”

“Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.”

Life Self Hard Work Effort History Successful Hard Work Essentials Intelligent Mastery Self Mastery Successful Life Network Marketing

Book:America and the World War

Source: America and the World War

“Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.”

Art I Can Self Joy Work Business Tasks

Book:The Kinship of Nature

Source: The Kinship of Nature

“The first and the best victory is to conquer self.”

Firsts Self Work Acceptance Victory Discipline Conquer Self Discipline Plato Daily Discipline

Author:Plato

“Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.”

Men Should Firsts Humans Art Self Care Force Work Human Beings Taught Duty Labor Take Care Every Man Cunning Begging Borrowing Dishonorable

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

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