Quotes About Menial Work

#1. Freedom from menial work should be a rallying cry, not a cudgel to be used against the Left. How much liberty is there in having to do something you hate in order to survive?

Alex Pareene

#2. Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.

Oswald Chambers

#3. They know how to eat, shit, drive their cars, do menial work, watch television and produce equally stupid spawns of themselves; what the hell are they doing to help mankind?

Brad McKinniss

#4. Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

Tad Williams

#5. Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

Robert Breault

#6. For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen ... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Harriet Martineau

#7. Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

Bev Perdue

#8. Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

Jackie Gleason

#9. If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.

Robin Wright

#10. Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#11. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can.

Anthony Bourdain

#12. Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.

Gene Luen Yang

#13. It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.

Aimee Mann

#14. Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy ... Why not choose joy? ... Why not live in joy?

Leo Buscaglia

#15. Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

Eugene V. Debs

#16. Nothing is ever as it seems but sometimes it leads to a better outcome than you could possibly have dreamed.

Truth Devour

#17. The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

Richard Flanagan

#19. You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.

Sunday Adelaja