Work: is it a blessing or curse? For some it can be liberating, for others tedious. How does one fill the void without it? For those in retirement, the absence without a career presents its challenges. For those seeking employment, however, what a dream come true to find a productive vocation.
Here are some select quotes about our labours:
- We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly. ~ Goethe
- Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty. ~ Voltaire
- Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- How do I work? I grope. ~ Albert Einstein
- No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. ~ Max Beerbohm
- By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day. ~ Robert Frost
Selected by quoteflections.
- All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- We work to become, not to acquire. ~ Elbert Hubbard
- It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance? ~ Ronald Reagan
- When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for. ~ Coco Chanel
- To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. ~ John Dewey
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