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Quotes About Work

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
~ Robert Burns
Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.
~ Benedict of Nursia
There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.
~ Robert Adams
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
~ Dmitri Mendeleev
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
~ Studs Terkel
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
~ Seth Godin
We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.
~ Betty Williams
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
~ Peace Pilgrim
If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.
~ Tom Kettle
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
~ Dorothy Day
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
~ Francois Fenelon
You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.
~ Jean Vanier, Finding Peace
After working for years, in the end days, people realize its peace for what they have worked for all those years by loosing the peace.
~ Gopichand Lagadapati
Pray as if you possess no will. Work as if everything depends on you.
~ Radhe Maa
Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.
~ Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
After all, it's what we've done that makes us what we are.
~ Jim Croce
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
~ Henry Kaiser
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.
~ Robin Williams
My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever
~ James Marsters
Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."
~ Philip Schuyler
There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.
~ Thomas Sowell