Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

I like to work.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

The post of honour is a private station.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.