Act Quote by J. Phillip Johnson

“With the term vita activa, I propose to designate three fundamental human activities: labor, work, and action. They are fundamental because each corresponds to…

— Hannah Arendt

Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the…

— Walter Bagehot

“Work is the activity which corresponds to the unnaturalness of human existence, which is not imbedded in, and whose mortality is not compensated by,…

— Hannah Arendt

“Work, thence identified as consistent, indefinite and systematic remunerative labor, foists its demands upon the employee and not the employer.”

— J. Phillip Johnson

Work is the means of living, but it is not living.

— Bill Vaughan

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

— Arthur Symons

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“... work is an act of worship. When people seek to fulfill their callings by glorifying God in their work, praising Him for their…

— Brian Fikkert

“Labor is the activity which corresponds to the biological process of the human body, whose spontaneous growth, metabolism, and eventual decay are bound to…

— Hannah Arendt

Work is an almost pure expression of the self.

— Chase Twichell

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as…

— William J. Clinton