Quotes About Work

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

You cannot be upset about results you don't have from work you didn't do.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.

Nothing was so hard for me to understand, so baffling, and at the same time so filled with menacing overtones as the commonplace remark, "Human beings work to earn their bread, for if they don't eat, they die.

As pessoas trabalham para ganhar seu pão, pois se não comem, morrem." Para mim, não havia frase mais obscura, difícil de entender e, ao mesmo tempo, que soasse mais ameaçadora do que essa.

I am the sort of person who can forget even the name of the woman with whom he attempted suicide) to get off from work. The sushi I was eating had nothing to recommend it. Why, when I have forgotten her name, should I be able to remember so clearly how bad the sushi tasted?

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Luck will do nothing for you if you're not consistently earning the right to receive it.

Money doesn't sleep. Money doesn't know about clocks, schedules or holidays, and you shouldn't either.

The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Ist die Literatur vielleicht ein Bär, der seine Pfote leckt, ein bleierner Schlaf nach getaner Pflicht, auf dem Diwan des Arbeitszimmers?

Here are three things you should know about the God you serve: First, if He has called you to a work, His angels go before you, beside you, and behind you (Psalm 91:11).

We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

Prayer does not equip us for greater works—prayer is the greater work.