Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
"Man does not live, therefore, to produce bread. He produces bread to live. The distinction is enormously important and relevant. Obviously man must have food, and so far as our experience goes, he must work to produce It, But work is not the purpose of life. Production is not the purpose of life. Instead, human lives are the entire purpose and the reason for all work and for all production.
- Robert G. Lewis - speaking about the issues of family farms at the annual meeting of the Interorganization Committee on Problems for Rural Youth in 1957
Further reading: A Balanced Life
Take Time For Yourself
Called to be a Street Sweeper
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