Long Hours Quotes - Page 5

• I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

  Meg Rosoff

  Meaningful, Thinking, Journey

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• There's this idea that everybody has to have everything right away... I wasn't the superstar. I had to work really long hours for it.

  Jenna Lyons

  Life Changing, Ideas, Long

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• But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.

  Brigid Schulte

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lonely, Truth, Two

  Frederick William Robertson (1867). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.135

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• The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

  George Ade

  Long, Income, May

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

  Simmie Knox

  Work, Long, Trying

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