Quotes of Job - somelinesforyou

“ I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ”

- William Cowper

“ The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit. ”

- S. G. Tallentyre

“ I think this is a very difficult job, especially for women - there are too few roles around. I never let myself rest on my laurels. ”

- Amanda Burton

“ Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”

- Maxim Gorky

“ Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. ”

- Washington Irving

“ They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. ”

- Bible

“ Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. ”

- Henry Ford

“ It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual.". ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Live together like brothers and do business like strangers. ”

- Unknown

“ If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along — whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. ”

- Bernard Meltzer

“ When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ”

- Joseph Wood Krutch

“ Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ”

- Edward Young

“ Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. ”

- Jane Austen

“ In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. ”

- Jacques Barzun

“ The harder I work, the luckier I get. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. ”

- Henry George

“ Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact. ”

- M. C. McIntosh

“ Get the job done. ”

- Don Shula

“ Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness. ”

- Georges Simenon

“ A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year. ”

- Roger Federer

“ It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.". ”

- Eric Clapton
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