Quotes About Work

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

Your cigarettes are basically gifts. Your salary basically stays the same. You basically don't need a wife . . . I forget the fourth.

Curly for a couple of hours, and talked to the doctors about him. They told me that in about six months his instep and ankle bones should be broken and put in a cast so that he would be able to bend his ankle. Curly decided against this, and although it gave him much pain and he limped his way through life, he never let it interfere with his work … or, for that matter, his play.

Respecte la terre, et elle te respectera. Travaille-la, elle te le rendra au centuple.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same.

Here you will never learn anything just because girls do it. But it's a pity not to do things just because girls do them. Work must be done for its own sake.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

The nobles were fighting men, the descendants of fighting men. They were proud of their vassalage, a word we have tinged with derogation. But today most of us are, have been, or will be employees; no employee has the right to look down on a vassal.

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

No one, it appears, took up his offer to commercialize his invention; like other inventions of his, it worked well for him, but mere mortals found the instructions too complicated.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Motto of the Benedictines

A man who does not work should not eat is the most underrated bible verse

Be industrious, let thine eyes be open, lest you become a beggar, for the man that is idle cometh not to honor.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.