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Quotes About Work

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
And you're stuck like a hook through the roof of your mouthTired of living for your sick daysEvery day makes you sickTired of living just get paidWhen you're dying to livebut you can't
~ Unknown
I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.
~ Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for at least eight hours a day, true responsibility?
~ Unknown
Do all the work you can while you still have strength.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Early to bed and early to rise may make a person 'healthy' but it may not make him 'wealthy' and 'wise'! If anyone really wants to be wealthy and wise, he must read books and work intelligently!
~ Md. Ziaul Haque
My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.
~ Marty Rubin
We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Every child must have chores to do. It gives them dignity in work and the joy of labor.
~ Unknown
There is no competition in work. Many a man wants glory but fails to work.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.
~ Marty Rubin
There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The significance - and ultimately the quality - of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part.
~ Wendell Berry
Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.
~ Peter Heller, Celine
Whatever you want, you must have the desire to work for it.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed that I am free of disease and horrendous working conditions. Long may it continue.
~ Unknown
You don't pray for the growth and success of the organization you work for, but you pray God favours you before your boss.Really?
~ Faithful Akpaloo
If your work is stressful, it's not your work.
~ Marty Rubin
When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got.
~ Gift Gugu Mona
Those who work, knows the strength of labour.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.
~ Unknown
The work is plentiful but the labours are few.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
How prudently we relate to our work determines whether we will be raised to a higher level of financial prosperity or not
~ Sunday Adelaja