Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

People want the dignity of work.

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

The physical lot of … workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality...

Either Men or Women that have a Trade, or are Labourers, can, if industrious, get near three times the Wages they commonly earn in EngIand.

I want to keep working. I have been stuck in this routine of coming to the set, putting on my make-up, eating, and leaving for home.

Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

I like the work that I get to do.

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?

Man is born to labor.

Nobody works harder than American workers. We are the hardest working people in the world.

We say, pay talent well and genius generously, but pay well also the arm that toils; pay the needle, the saw, the spade, the hoe, the mop.

Men, by and large, make more because of some of the things they do. Their jobs are, by and large, riskier. They don’t mind working nights and weekends. They don’t mind working overtime or outdoors.

Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.

At the risk of being glib, I would say if you really want to make America great again, you have to make work cool again.

I just want to work.

My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.

The best thing for workers is work, not unemployment.