Work Quotes
31760 Work quotes by 12929 unique authors
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Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he…
— Ayn Rand
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So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Eternal life is the most important thing in all the world for which you and I should work and hope someday to attain. . .…
— Milton R. Hunter
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It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no…
— J. Reuben Clark
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Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If…
— Anthony Mary Claret
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The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and…
— Adolf Hitler
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These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion…
— Pope Pius IX
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We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on…
— Simone Campbell
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Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so…
— Pope Paul VI
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Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their…
— Ellen Gilchrist
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One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing…
— Ellen Gilchrist
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Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
— Anne Lamott
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The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
— Oswald Chambers
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We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless…
— Caryll Houselander
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Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work.…
— Mother Teresa
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We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human…
— Oswald Chambers
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O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith…
— Pope John XXIII
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Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the…
— Caryll Houselander
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To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.
— Ernest Hello
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At the judgment, in response to our questions, the Lord will show us his wounds, and we will understand. In the meantime, however, he simply…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life. But it takes…
— Peter Kreeft
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It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back…
— C.S. Lewis
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You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities…
— Josemaria Escriva
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