Quotes about Work
We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.
- Timothy Keller
Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.
- Tina Fey
We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.
- Todd Young
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
- Victor Hugo
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
- Victor Hugo
Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time
- Walt Whitman
I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.
- Wayne Dyer
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
- Wendell Berry
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
- Wendell Berry
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
- Wendell Berry
My work has always been the product of my time.
- William Saroyan
At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!
- Zig Ziglar