Quotes about Employment
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
— Oscar Wilde
The point is not: take all thou hast and give to the poor, but use all thou hast to encourage the industry and give work to the poor.
— DH Lawrence
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. It gives meaning and self-esteem to people who are parents. It gives a role model to children.
— Bill Clinton
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.
— Pope Francis
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
— Albert Camus
Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.
— Gloria Steinem
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
— Abraham Lincoln
If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.
— Henry Ford
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
— William Faulkner
The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed. He is merely not employed on that work, and the public is not carrying the burden of his support by paying more than it ought on that work—for after all, it is the public that pays!
— Henry Ford