Work Quotes
“It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.”
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
-- Saint Augustine
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
-- Khalil Gibran
“Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.”
-- Ivan Illich
“Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.”
-- Soichiro Honda
“Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.”
-- Nicolaus Copernicus
“If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.”
-- Kim Kardashian