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Quotes About Work

Ours is a church of moral work—not because we think morality is a sufficient religion, but because we know no better way of showing our gratitude to God, and our confidence in one another.
~ John A. Buehrens
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
~ John Anthony Ciardi
I was told that if you work hard, bust your butt, go to school, and get great grades, you'd do well in life. That's a bunch of crap. Today we have better information about how the universe operates and how we operate.
~ John Assaraf
If the holiness of God is not perceived and understood, then the entire work and conduct of God are not grasped.'29
~ John B. Webster
The army, under Rosecrans' administration, looks better than it ever did before. He certainly enters into his work with his whole soul, and unless some unlucky mishap knocks his feet from under him, he will soon be recognized as the first general of the Union.
~ John Beatty
Like an artist, or like anybody else who believes that his work justifies his life, Sassall – by our society's miserable standards – is a fortunate man.
~ John Berger
Breaking things and hurting people, thought Harry as he marched across the gravel. A cracking fuckin' way for a bloke to earn a quid. Better than being chased around by those paparazzi cunts, at any rate. He
~ John Birmingham
We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
~ John Boehner
My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
~ John Boehner
First, it is important to remember that the origin of Freud's model lay, not in his clinical work with patients, but in ideas he had learned previously from his teachers—the physiologist Brücke, the psychiatrist Meynert, and the physician Breuer.
~ John Bowlby
The only value comes if you have something positive to do, and it's important to match both your own interests and abilities to what you decide to work on. I
~ John Brockman
hard-working Krafve explains gamely that when a company
~ John Brooks
To spend your days on such work when the world is chockful of amusing things. Life goes roaring by and you only hear the echo in your stuffy rooms.
~ John Buchan
Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
~ John Bunyan
To talk of things that are good, to me is very acceptable, with you or with any other; and I am glad that I have met with those that incline to so good a work; for, to speak the truth, there are but few who care thus to spend their time as they are in their travels, but choose much rather to be speaking of things to no profit; and this hath been a trouble to me.
~ John Bunyan
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
~ John Burroughs
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~ John Burroughs
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~ John Burroughs
The secret of happiness is something to do
~ John Burroughs
a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. . . . Always have something ahead of you to 'look forward to'—to work for and hope for
~ John Bytheway
Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; this is called trade. Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; this is called finance.
~ John C. Bogle
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
~ John Calvin
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned
~ John Calvin
Ps. 126:1). God has done a stupendous and incredible work in us who bear Christ's name.
~ John Calvin