307 Quotes About Working

Don't live by your thoughts only; live by your words also. Whatever plans you think about, affirm it in your mouth first, declare it and you will succeed in working it out! Words can be powerful!

It's not that we stop working when we get old, but we get old when we stop working.

You have to love what you do, to give your best.

I associate night shift work with circadian rhythm disorders, extreme working hours and tumors.

There’s a major difference between entering a trade apprenticeship as an adolescent, and entering one as a grownup. Youngsters grow into their trade, while a grown-up has to inject it into their veins.

Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.

The biggest reward for working very hard in such a way that you forget even yourself is to forget for a while all the disturbing thoughts in your mind!

When you do physical labor, you end up being no longer useful when your physical condition deteriorates. However hard I work, however dependable I am, when my body grows old then no doubt I too will be a worn-out part, ready to be replaced, no longer of any use to the convenience store.

The wheel of fortune turned sharply in America. Education and learning counted for nothing here. Tradesmen and labourers went into the savage pushcart life of Hester Street, fought their way up, became contractors, shop owners, great manufacturers. Intellectuals and professionals preferred the factories, certain they would get out again. Most of these men were lost forever in the sweatshops.