Value Of Work Quotes

“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding.”
― Clifford D. Simak, All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories

“Easy money had no weight: you didn't feel you'd earned it. What you get for a song you won't have for long, the old folks used to say, and they were right.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“With pure nature, money isn't necessary but meaningful to every one, including me, but i don't make it a principle rule because I can live without it.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“He is well paid that is well satisfied.”
― Shakespeare

“I need to work. It’s the one time my thoughts will cooperate with me.”
― Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants

“. . . the food they had gathered from Sarene's cart wouldn't last long. The wildmen would return.
The numbers that came to him after Sarene were much greater than those that had followed him before. Raoden was forced to acknowledge that despite the temporary setbacks they caused, Sarene's excursions into Elantris [bringing free food to be distributed] had ultimately been beneficial. She had proven to the people that no matter how much their hunger hurt, simply feeding their bellies wasn't enough. Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
So when they came back to him, they no longer worked for food. They worked because they feared what they would become if they did not.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“. . . the food they had gathered from Sarene's cart wouldn't last long. The wildmen would return.

The numbers that came to him after Sarene were much greater than those that had followed him before. Raoden was forced to acknowledge that despite the temporary setbacks they caused, Sarene's excursions into Elantris [bringing free food to be distributed] had ultimately been beneficial. She had proven to the people that no matter how much their hunger hurt, simply feeding their bellies wasn't enough. Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

So when they came back to him, they no longer worked for food. They worked because they feared what they would become if they did not.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris