Quotes About Work

Os deseo un año de salud, de satisfacciones, de buen trabajo, un año durante el cual tengáis cada día el gusto de vivir, sin esperar que los días que hayan tenido que pasar para encontrar su satisfacción y sin tener necesidad de poner esperanzas de felicidad en los días que hayan de venir.

Podemos mejorar. Pero para eso tenemos que creer en las posibilidades de la democracia, y defenderla, y trabajar para perfeccionarla. Ten confianza.

While there was work to be done, women did it, and behind the vivid foreground activities of popes and kings, wars and discoveries, tyranny and defeat, working women wove the real fabric of the kind of history that has yet to receive its due.

But such are our days. Such are the days and times of Every Man and, no matter how hard we work and strive, we can never know when something shall be given to us and when it will be taken away.

No me gusta llenar de plomo a nadie, pero es mi trabajo

Now we determine each other's worth by asking, 'What do you do?' If you say 'nothing', people move away from you as if you're a corpse.

Even after the big rancheros and the tejanos came and fenced the beautiful llano, he and those like him continued to work there, I guess because only in that wide expanse of land and sky could they feel the freedom their spirits needed.

That's what the welfare people want,' Tranquilino gritted his teeth, 'to have us on welfare and to have our women working. Then they can point to our broken families and say the mexicano is a lazy, no good son-of-a-bitch!

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink

When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.

The camel's hump is an ugly lump, Which well you might see at the zoo. But uglier yet is the hump we get, For having to little to do.

When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke. All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call civilization.

Una donna può perdonare l'uomo che ha rovinato tutto il lavoro della sua vita, se quest'uomo saprà darle amore; un uomo, invece, potrà perdonare chi ha distrutto il suo amore, ma non chi ha distrutto il suo lavoro. [La luce che si spense]

I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.' He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.' I said, 'Yes and they all smel of cow shit dont they?

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

Work and study, theory and practice: the two must go hand in hand. You must not stop studying because you work, and you must not stop working because you study.

shift your realities and widen your world, but the work of waking up is up to you. It's good to hear your voice again. Good to have you back, and you're just in time, because there's more to do before we're done. Endings are difficult, and we need your help. Are you ready?

What I want most for you is challenging work that makes you proud. It's the key to happiness.

She was also completely candid about wanting to work with people she could learn from. My first boss, Rosalie Wright, had been much the same. Rosalie is the toughest person I've ever met: She bucked enormous pressure to run major investigative articles in New West.

talked dolefully about his job—he sold antiques in a shop owned

If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.

All this is only fooling, for if it is true that every man must work for his own salvation, then all the prophecies about the future of the world are only valuable and allowable as a recreation, or a joke, like playing bowls or cards.

Der Freiheit Inhalt, intellektuell gesehen, ist Wahrheit, und die Wahrheit macht den Menschen frei. Eben darum aber ist die Wahrheit ein Werk der Freiheit dergestalt, dass sie fort und fort die Wahrheit erzeugt.