Quotes About Work

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

Il nemico è qui. Dentro le frontiere segnate dal capriccio e dalla bramosia di profitto. L'umanità che soffre e lavora, quella è la nostra patria. Il nemico, è l'oligarchia ladra che si ingozza del nostro sudore. Non ci ingannate più. ... Non mi ingannate più. E, in cuor mio, non vi perdono. Clément Duval.

I work because I need to have two thousand francs in my pocket every month, but I have no desire to glorify work either by enthusiasm or envy or emulation. Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void. Who would think of working in a waiting room? While awaiting our turn we chat, we look at the pictures on the walls. But work? There is no point in it, if when our turn comes to go into the next room we shall no longer see anything.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

You are called to exercise the Spirit's gifts amidst the ups and downs of your daily life. Let your faith mature through your studies, work, sports, music and art. Let it be sustained by prayer and nurtured by the sacraments.

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

The greatness of work is inside man.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.

A busy mother makes slothful daughters.

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.

Mendapat upah kerena menyenangkan orang lain yang tidak punya persangkutan dengan kata hati sendiri, kan itu dalam seni namanya pelacuran?

Kami memang orang miskin. Di mata orang kota kemiskinan itu kesalahan. Lupa mereka lauk yg dimakannya itu kerja kami.

Kartini pernah mengatakan : mengarang adalah bekerja untuk keabadian.

Selama orang masih suka bekerja, dia masih suka hidup dan selama orang tidak suka bekerja sebenarnya ia sedang berjabatan tangan dengan maut.

Memerintah pekerja pun kau tidak bisa karena kau tak bisa memerintah dirimu sendiri, Memerintah diri sendiri kau tak bisa karena kau tak mau bekerja.

Bukankah hidup manusia ini tiap hari dicangkul, diendapkan, dan diseret juga seperti gundukan tanah merah itu?

Jadi apanya yang harus dikenal, kan orang dikenal karena karyanya, ratusan juta orang di atas bumi ini tidak berkarya yang membikin mereka dikenal, maka tidak dikenal.

Dan rangsang hidup itu ogah dibius padam begitu saja: lihatlah, bukan saja kerjamu belum selesai, yang selesai pun terlalu banyak cacat dan cela. Imajinasi saja tidak cukup. Kau harus tinggal hidup, paling tidak tiga puluh tahun lagi. Sertai dan saksikan akhir dari semua ini!