- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Furnace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.
- I Have Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020