Work Quotes

Work hard, but make time for your love, family and friends. Nobody remembers PowerPoint presentations on your final day.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.