W Quotes
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“Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.”
“Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.”
“Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.”
“Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.”
“Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.”
“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.”
Source: Works and Days
“Work is no longer challenging.”
“Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings
“Work is not a drag for me. I like to get here early, hang out, catch up with the boys. I'll go in the cage and hit, do my exercises. I try to keep it fun and find ways to enjoy it.”
“Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.”
“Work is not about survival alone”
“Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.”
“Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Work is not designed for survival; neither is it designed for salary”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
“Work is not only about making money. It it is about work-life balance.”
Source: Essentials of Career Management for Language Professionals: A Blueprint for Mastering your Career and Leading a Healthy Work-Life Balance
“Work is not only the exhaustion of the body, but the silent erasure of dignity.”
Source: New Slavery
“Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.”
“Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.”
“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.”
“Work is of utmost importance in a person’s life and not only as a means of meeting one’s needs at various levels of Maslow’s pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression.”
Source: The Reengineers
“Work is often the father of pleasure.”
“Work is one of God’s instruments for you to discover yourself”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Work is one of the best educators of practical character.”
Source: Character
“Work is only an instrument in the hand of God for the purification of Christians from all self-centeredness and self-seeking. The work of the world can be done only where a person forgets himself, where he loses himself in a cause...”
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.”
“Work is part of school.”
Source: A Bright New Morning: An American Story
“Work is part of the equation for learning.
Work is part of the equation for growing.
Work is part of the equation for maturing.
Work is part of the equation for achieving.
Work is part of the equation for adjusting.
Work is part of the equation for enduring.
Work is part of the equation for healing.
Work is part of the equation for rejoicing.
Work is part of the equation for life.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.”
Source: Heresies
“Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without harm. Indeed, the Bible does not say we should work one day and rest six or that work and rest should be balanced evenly but directs us to the opposite ratio. Leisure and pleasure are great goods, but we can take only so much of them.”
Source: Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
“Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.”
“Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.”
Source: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected
“Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.”
“Work is the act of making yourself useful by creating value for a specific group of people. In exchange for our work, we each get paid money which allows us to purchase the work of other people. Work creates a virtuous cycle of value creation, value consumption and value growth. Therefore, work is economically greater than charity. Because whereas charity is economically one sided, work has a multiplicative value effect. In a sense, the greatest form of charity is the creation of employment for others.”
“Work is the antidote to misery.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.”
“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes. The best stories
“Work is the best method devised for killing time.”
“Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.”
“Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.”
“Work is the best thing to make us love life.”
“Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.”
Source: How to Enjoy Work and Get More Fun Out of Life
“Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.”
“Work is the curse of the drinking class.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess.
We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
“Work is the daily activity that sucks your soul but pays your bills. It’s the path your feet walked down while your head was stuck in the clouds.”
Source: The Lost
“Work is the first step out of a life of mediocrity and irrelevance”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.”