Work Obligation Quotes

While I was governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement.

In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn't, like, cashing Social Security checks; he wasn't hanging out - he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work.

I've always been able to work. I think it's an actor's obligation to keep working if you can.

Work is hard, and jobs can be dull. But you can't just take a holiday when you feel like it. You turn up because it is the right thing to do.

Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that's most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord's kingdom.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

Anyone who is able to work ought to work.

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

I've got bills to pay like everyone else. I'm a high-earner but I don't see myself as rich. I know in some people's eyes I probably am, but I will always have to work. My son Matt asked me if we were rich the other day and I told him that in my view, being rich is not having to get up to go to work. I can't see myself ever being in that position.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.

I have to travel a lot for work.

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

Our job is to execute.

Like anything, I remember who I work for. You work for the people who sent you to office.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

I mean, sometimes you have to go to work.

I need to work to support my family.

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.