Quotes About Work

No one earth life, however rich in experience, could furnish the knowledge, so nature decrees that he must return to Earth, after intervals of rest, to take up his work where he dropped it,

We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism--that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured

The Puritans wanted to be men of the calling--we, on the other hand, must be.

Impulsive enjoyment of life, which leads away both from work in a calling and from religion, was as such the enemy of rational asceticism, whether in the form of seigneurial sports, or the enjoyment of the dance-hall or the public—house of the common man. 

St. Paul's "He who will not work shall not eat" holds

Where 'doing one's job' cannot be directly linked to the highest spiritual and cultural values--although it may be felt to be more than mere economic coercion--the individual today usually makes no attempt to find any meaning in it. Where capitalism is at its most unbridled, in the United States, the pursuit of wealth, divested of its metaphysical significance, today tends to be associated with purely elemental passions, which at times virtually turn it into a sporting contest.

Ein Berufsmensch ohne Geist, Genussmensch ohne Herz, dieses Nichts bildet sich ein, die Krone der Schöpfung zu sein.

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

Especially begging, on the part of one able to work, is not only the sin of slothfulness, but a violation of the duty of brotherly love according to the Apostle's own word. 

The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation  to one's job, are here most often combined with a strict economy which calculates the possibility of high earnings, and a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

There is no end to the work of salvageIn the drowning high seas of ChristmasWhen loneliness, in the name of Christ(That longing!), attacks the world.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

For just someone that want success without experiencing something similar, 100% of those, are always ignorant and end up in very tight spot. So it is a good idea to work for somebody then you'll learn the basics etc.

The everything of womanhood carries no reward at all. And yet, everything still has to get done. So you keep working and you stop waiting, but the hope is still there, tucked in a corner. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you going—the hope that that someone—that one person—will applaud.

The poor work to make money for the rich, the middle class work to make money for themselves, the rich make money from other people's work.

Just the gardener….

that you didn't work just for the money, you worked for the freedom work gave you, for the chance to be a stronger, more interesting version of yourself.

Maybe the idea of the supposed tension between working and nonworking mothers had been put out in the world just to cause divisiveness.

It did not make Helen feel worse, though, as she had thought it might. It occupied her; it gave her a project to work on. She and Ray had shared almost nothing in years. Grief didn't count, because in a way it was nothing; there wasn't anything in it to hold on to, just wide-open empty space.

Does [your music] have to be a job? And as for your actual job...do you have to think of [it] as a consolation prize? ...What if you just *played*? Isn't it possible you'd also like your job more, because you wouldn't think of it as something that's secretly had to replace this other thing?

So, you work with Marcy?" Wayne earned points for what appeared to be sincere interest. "Yes. She's in public accounting and I'm in corporate, but we both work for the same company." Wayne grinned. "Me, I'm in murders and executions." "Wayne!" Marcy rolled her eyes. "He means—" "Mergers and acquisitions. I got it.