Quotes About Work

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

come abbiamo fatto a farla franca? Siamo scampati al suicidio, agli incidenti e alla malattia. Ti senti come un superstite. E, al contempo, capisci che bisogna vivere, lavorare e amare come mai prima d'ora.

The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art.

A man is measured by the quantity of what he produces, never the quality of his dreams.

Men's lot in life is endless hard work whose fruits will be consumed largely by others. The more men bring in, the greater the demands. Should men fail, they may lose both what they made and those to whom they gave it. Perhaps the most terrifying thing about Melville's story is that, at times, Bartleby's behavior and fate can tempt even the most active and successful man.

The dole was supposed to tide you over till you got a fucking job. It was never meant to be your fucking main earn.

And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.

There are some who come willingly," I said, as if I had not heard him, "not out of love, but out of sickness and sadness and a lack of understanding. He wanted none of them. And so he waited without waiting, and dreamed of what he could not imagine, and performed his terrible work and lived only in the moments out of which eternity is spun, knowing it was hopeless.

If we can't find valuable work, it's not because we're in a recession; we're in a recession because we can't find valuable work. We've been confusing cause and effect.

Work was created to put the nature and character of God on display.

The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

Child labour was the norm. It is not a problem, or even a category, that most Romans would have understood. The invention of 'childhood' and the regulation of what work 'children' could do only came fifteen hundred years later and is still a peculiarly Western preoccupation.

The cash that comes from selling your labour is vulgar and unacceptable for a gentleman … for wages are effectively the bonds of slavery.

Most Roman rulers spent longer at their desks than at the dinner table. They were expected to work at the job, to be seen to exercise practical power

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labor you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.