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Quotes about Work


Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S Thompson

Domestic and social violence usually starts off with a few angry words and a few hurt feelings that don't get resolved, then escalates into feelings of betrayal, rage and revenge. Inner feelings of rage soon spill over into all aspects of society. Social stress multiplies daily with every new report of political upheaval, child abuse, drug abuse, workplace violence, children bringing guns to school, homelessness, ethnic wars or some other crisis. The root cause of a lot of these social stresses is the inner violence created by dysfunctional communication between the heart and the mind. As social stress increases, we're faced with a choice: Retreat into fear and isolation, become angry and bitter, try to ignore it all, or take responsibility for our own stress reactions. Bobby Jagdev For peace, we must prepare for war. Slade Whitfield -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.

Joseph Addison

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - and they know it.

Fred Friendly

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Thomas Carlyle

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

Mother Teresa

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.

Marianne Williamson

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Alexander Pope

We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman.

Wendell Phillips

"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

Henry Ford

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

Sam Ervin

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

J. G. Holland

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work. •Henry Lewis Stimson War is like love, it always finds a way.

Henry Lewis Stimson

His work well done, the leader stepped aside Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride. Content to wear the higher crown of worth, While time endures, "First citizen of earth."

James Jeffrey Roche

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

Cardinal De Rets

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

John Bible

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine M anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Don Marquis

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Annie Dillard

Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again.

Alexander Pope

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.

Josh Billings

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