Quotes About Work

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no soaring ambitions and consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon. For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Anne," said Leslie, breaking abruptly a short silence, "you don't know how GOOD it is to be sitting here with you again — working — and talking — and being silent together.

The future was to be a laborious business.

All I want is someone who reads books, loves his work, and me, too, of course, and who doesn't take drugs, and isn't on unemployment.

Wantin' takes too much time...I'd rather be working.

Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on—she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better—in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold.

He was just a husband and a salaried man. Choice didn't play any part in his life.

I can work and think too," Call said. "You're the only man I know whose brain don't work unless it's in the shade.

We got all day to break horses.

He had done hard work all his life and was ready to stop, but he couldn't stop.

Jake would have done better to let them hang him," he said. "You know how he suffers when he has to work.

work, whatever it must be, is the service of God and of the community and therefore the expression of man's dignity. - Emil Brunner, Gifford Lectures, 1948

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked. Cargill

the notion that having a job or an income of any kind should be happiness enough has become outdated.

Canine homeland security at work.

Not that I'm saying that I didn't have a choice in working for them. I believe you always have a choice. And the choice I made was to defend people who, by law, deserve a proper defense. There's honor in that. I never lied to my family about

He was wearing his overalls and these thick work gloves—purple, and ridged. The gloves were a recent purchase. He got them made special in purple because that was my favorite color.

It's amazing . . ." he said. "When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.

It's work, son, Father said. That's what money is; it's hard work.

Why, I guess you can," Ma said doubtfully. She did not like to see women working in the fields. Only foreigners did that. Ma and her girls were Americans, above doing men's work.

I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

Haste makes waste, but a lazy man'd rather get his work done fast than do it himself...all it saves is time, son. And what good is time, with nothing to do? You want to sit and twiddle your thumbs, all these stormy winter days?