Work - Quotes

Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No man ever did or can do a great work alone. - Elbert Hubbard

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery. - Orison Swett Marden

None but those who work are entitled to eat. - Aesop

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J. M. Barrie

Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. - Albert Einstein

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work. - Maxim Gorky

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle

Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man. - George S. Clason

Slow work produces fine goods. - Chinese Proverb

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. - Peter Drucker

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. - Richard Paul Evans

Time - Quotes

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Time will explain. - Jane Austen

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked. - Euripedes

Time will tell... it always does. - Unknown

Time wounds all heals. - Tracy Letts

Time, place and space are illusions, having no existence save in the mind of man which must set limits and bounds in order to understand. - Robert E. Howard

Time. Like a petal in the wind, flows softly by. As old lives are taken, new ones begin. A continual chain, which lasts throughout eternity. Every life but a minute in time, but each of equal importance. - Cindy Cheney

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever. - Bruce Lee

Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. - Michael Leboeuf

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. - Jeremy Irons

We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase. - Stuart R. Levine

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers. - Ursula K. la Guin

When things don't please you, the best medicine is to swallow a little tincture of time. - Ken Alstad

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. - Art Buchwald

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. - Alan Lightman With time even a bear can learn to dance. - Yiddish Proverb

On Love

Just as reality intrudes upon the two-year-old’s fantasy of omnipotence so does reality intrude upon the fantastic unity of the couple who have fallen in love. Sooner or later, in response to the problems of daily living, individual will reasserts itself. He wants to have sex; she doesn’t. She wants to go to the movies; he doesn’t. He wants to put money in the bank; she wants a dishwasher. She wants to talk about her job; he wants to talk about his. She doesn’t like his friends; he doesn’t like hers. So both of them, in the privacy of their hearts, begin to come to the sickening realization that they are not one with the beloved, that the beloved has and will continue to have his or her own desires, tastes, prejudices and timing different from the other’s. One by one, gradually or suddenly, the ego boundaries snap back into place; gradually or suddenly, they fall out of love. Once again they are two separate individuals. At this point they begin either to dissolve the ties of their relationship or to initiate the work of real loving. - M. Scott Peck

When a person falls in love what he or she certainly feels is ‘I love him’ or ‘I love her.’ But two problems are immediately apparent. The first is that the experience of falling in love is specifically a sex-linked erotic experience. We do not fall in love with our children even though we may love them very deeply. We do not fall in love with our friends of the same sex – unless we are homosexually oriented – even though we may care for them greatly. We fall in love only when we are consciously or unconsciously sexually motivated. The second problem is that the experience of falling in love is invariably temporary. No matter whom we fall in love with, we sooner or later fall out of love if the relationship continues long enough. This is not to say that we invariably cease loving the person with whom we fell in love. But it is to say that the feeling of ecstatic lovingness that characterizes the experience of falling in love always passes. The honeymoon always ends. The bloom of romance always fades. - M. Scott Peck

More on Love Here, and the book The Light of Love

Quote Worthy

As an entrepreneur, I choose my teachers carefully, very carefully. I am extremely cautious of the people with whom I spend my time and to whom I listen. - Donald Trump

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions. - Donald Trump

But the fact of the matter is that everyone has an explicit or implicit set of ideas and beliefs as to the essential nature of the world. - M. Scott Peck

Don't get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you. - Donald Trump

We cannot solve life’s problems except by solving them. - M. Scott Peck

Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization. - M. Scott Peck

Never ignore a person who cares for you. Because someday you’ll realize you’ve lost a diamond, while you were busy collection stones. - Unknown

Every single person on the planet has a story. Don’t judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you. - Unknown

The same people who are candy to our eyes can be poison to our hearts. Study their ingredients before feeding them to your soul. - Unknown

Sometimes, you need to know your place in someone’s life because you might get hurt if you expect too much. - Unknown

If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you. - Unknown

Sometimes, you just need to forget what is gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next. - Unknown

More Quotes Here - And the book Quote Worthy

Words - Quotes

Words never can express the whole that we feel: they give but an outline. - Eliza Cook

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. - Theodor W. Adorno

Words should be weighed not counted. - Yiddish Proverb

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects. - Dejan Stojanovic

Words spoken are like eggs broken. - Sheri Glewen

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. - Douglas Adams

Words were too clumsy, sometimes; treacherous, too, always trying to twist around and mean something slightly different. - K. J. Parker

Words which enlighten some darken others. - Edward Counsel

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words. So powerful. They can crush a heart, or heal it. They can shame a soul, or liberate it. They can shatter dreams, or energize them. They can obstruct connection, or invite it. They can create defences or melt them. We have to use words wisely. - Unknown

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. - Doris Lessing

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order. - Bertrand Russell

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts. - Robert Fulghum

You can stroke people with words. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak. - Don Delillo

You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow – leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it. - Conrad Aiken

Your words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one. - Unknown

Writers - Quotes

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego. - Norman Mailer

Writers in this country, particularly novelists, are likely to come to the medium through some back door. Nearly every writer I know was going to be something else, and then found himself writing by a kind of passionate default. - John Barth

Writers kid themselves – about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work – there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes – it's still just work. - Sinclair Lewis

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. - Edmund Burke

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

Writing a killer first line to a novel is an art form in which there are a few masters and a great many apprentices. - Chuck Wendig

Writing can't be a way of life – the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. - Doris Lessing

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. - Don Delilllo

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted. - Gerald Asher

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. - Graham Greene

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. - Ann Patchett

Writing is a profession you can practice while upside down and experiencing total blackout in a cave. You just use the mental recorder instead of pen and paper ... or portable ... and hope you find a use for the experience. - C. J. Cherryh

Writing is always a rough translation from wordlessness into words. - Charles Simic

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big.... This is a trophy brought back from the further realm, the kingdom of perpetual glistening night where we know ourselves absolutely. This one goes on the wall. - Kate Braverman

Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it. - John Green

Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not. - Debasish Mridha

Teachers - Quotes

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. - Joyce Meyer

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating. - C.B. Neblette

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care. - Horace Mann

Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. - Unknown

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. - Helen Caldicott

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students. - Jeff Bezos

Teaching is a calling too. And I’ve always thought that teachers in their way are holy – angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. - Jeannette Walls

Teaching is an art, not a science, principally because it involves human beings, their emotions and their values. - Gilbert Highet

Teaching is arousing and using the pupil's mind to form in it a desired conception of thought. - John Milton Gregory

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun

Teaching is often thought of as something that comes rather naturally to people who know their subject. In general, it is thought that it is a simple process that produces simple outcomes, but ... it takes place in a complicated social institution, which is filled with diverse people. It is a fluid interplay of events. One cannot just know the subject and teach it, because the subjects themselves are ever changing. - M. H. Siddiqui

Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mould the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity. - Calvin Coolidge

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals,’ the ones who somehow know how to teach. - Peter Drucker

Ideas - Quotes

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. - Winston Churchill

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious. - David Ogilvy

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does the least for progress. - Lewis F. Korns

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. - Raymond Charles Barker

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. - Walt Disney

Our ideas ... must first acquire a certain strength, before we can proceed efficiently to act upon them. They have their periods of immaturity and maturity. First comes the germ of the idea; then its growth; then an enlargement of that growth; then an expansion of that enlargement; until finally the idea takes its ultimate form as a picture, a book, or a revolution. - Christian Nestell Bovee

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. - Saul Bellow

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. - Ezra Pound

People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale. - James Champy

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link. - Friedrich von Schiller

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. - John Locke

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. - Lisa Randall

Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda

Children - Quotes

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. - Peggy O'Mara This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. - Anne Lamott

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. - Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain. - John Locke

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent. - Alexader McCall Smith

Toddlers who don’t learn gradually about disappointment lose their resilience through lack of practice in give-and-take with other people’s needs. They can become self-centred, demanding, and difficult to like or to be with. - Alicia F. Lieberman

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. - Roger Lewin

We know that the outcasts and misfits are the children most likely to become violent, so it only follows that we must pull them into the arms of love and/or acceptance, and find a place where they fit. If our system doesn't have a place where a child fits, there's something wrong with the system, not the child. - William G. Defoore

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. - Brigham Young

What children say, they have heard at home. - West African Proverb

What we instil in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future. - Steve Maraboli

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt

You can do anything with children if only you play with them. - German Proverb

Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson

Truth - Quotes

We all seek to know the truth about everything around us except ourselves; because it hurts to know about one’s own limitations and to admit them. - Unknown

We cannot change the truth, no matter how much we dislike it. - Raven

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever. - Marcel Proust

We shall find some things that are true, and some that are new, but very few things that are both true and new. - Charles Caleb Colton

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. - Denis Diderot

What people believe prevails over the truth. - Sophocles

What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth. - Robert M. Pirsig

When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. - Anais Nin

When the love of truth rules in the heart, the light of truth will guide the practice. - Benjamin Whichcote

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

When you open your mind to the impossible, sometimes you find the truth. - Dr. Walter Bishop

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. - Bill Copeland

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Albert Einstein

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. - Aristotle

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it. - George Harrison

You can’t change the truth, but the truth can change you. - Unknown

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts. - Austin O’Malley

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. - Anne Lamott

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth. - Horace Mann