“Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is to write, and only to write.”

“In the interests of the ideal of maximum output, [our society] judges men by their fitness for jobs, not jobs by their fitness for men.”

John Passmore (1914–2004) Australian philosopher

“The way out for our youths is jobs, jobs, jobs.”

Oby Ezekwesili (1963) Nigerian accountant, politician, human rights activist, convener of bring back our girls (Chibok girls) and pres…

“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”

Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist

“We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.”

Atul Gawande (1965) American surgeon

“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged on one thing: the result. ”

Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive

“Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

“God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Purple Hibiscus

“There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs as a nation. Our competitiveness as a nation is not inevitable. It will not just happen.”

Carly Fiorina (1954) American corporate executive and politician

“Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster