Quotes About Work

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Stay at home mom is still a job.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, That's how it is. I never thought that was the exception.