Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.
I certainly had times when I thought this wasn't going to work out, but just being a working actor felt like a victory.
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I'm nervous before every day of work, almost. Even after six years of 'Breaking Bad.'
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make...
I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to...
I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.
I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.
It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.
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There's also a lighter side - people unwinding after work to talk through life's bigger questions over drinks. See Effort Quotes and Goal Quotes for more on getting things done.
