Quotes about Employment

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them, because it was either a job that person didn't want to do or didn't exist.

Lord: "I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened." Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers. And once that happened he was "employable" again.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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.

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.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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.

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.

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.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.