Quotes About Work

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.

I think every time you start a job, it's good to remember that everyone's kind of in the same boat, no one knows what they're doing. Everyone thinks that they don't know what they're doing.

I always felt, you don't have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.

I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.

I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there's something about doing a job alone that you've always done with someone else that just doesn't feel right. Maybe it's like making Christmas cookies by yourself. There's nothing wrong with it in theory, but you're really supposed to be doing it with other people, and not just any other people.

You could argue they'd lost their way, in their choices, their work, their marriage. But the truth was, there wasn't any way. There was just day after day, small stuff, idle conversation, scheduling. And then after a couple of decades it somehow added up to something, for good or for ill or for both.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time at the office.

but I will say this, sir, that a steadier, pleasanter, honester, smarter young fellow I never had in this stable. I can trust his word and I can trust his work; he is gentle and clever with horses...

and that when he was past work he should be shot and buried.

And as to being quick, why, bless you! That is only a matter of habit; if you get into the habit of being quick, it is just as easy as being slow; easier, I should say; in fact, it don't agree with my health to be hulking about over a job twice as long as it need take. Bless you! I couldn't whistle if I crawled over my work as some folks do!

do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

But is not active employment the best remedy for overwhelming sorrow—the surest antidote for despair?

nije li marljiv rad najbolji lijek za neizmjernu tugu – najsigurniji protuotrov za o?aj?

During the late 1910s and early '20s, immigrant workers at the Ford automotive plant in Dearborn, Michigan, were given free, compulsory "Americanization" classes. In addition to English lessons, there were lectures on work habits, personal hygiene, and table manners. The first sentence they memorized was "I am a good American.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Work, love, courage and hope, Make me good and help me cope!

We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but … we have to earn it. And that's something you can't achieve by taking the easy way out. Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.