Quotes About Work

Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world.

Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

The worst job I ever had was as a forensicologist for the United Nations. One time I thought I'd come across the mass grave of a thousand snowmen, but it turns out it was just a field of carrots.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Why does every flight attendant seem like they are going through a divorce?

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.

This is a pie chart about procrastination.

Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.