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Work Quotes by Dorothy Day
- What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as…
- Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
- People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step…
- Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each…
- The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace.…
- What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our…
- It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
- No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach