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.”
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
-- Fred Rogers
“Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.”
-- William Moulton Marston
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
-- Newt Gingrich
“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”
-- Thomas Huxley
“How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
-- Thomas Carlyle