Grapes of Wrath Quotes!!!?

Question

I need a Grapes of Wrath quotes dealing with work and opportunity and how it is perceived by a person or by society as a whole.

pg. numbers and chapters would be extremely helpful!!

Answer 1

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. ~ Chapter 14 of the Grapes of Wrath.

The page number depends on the publisher of the book you're reading.

How it is perceived by a person or by society?

Steinbeck makes a point that is crucial to his overarching message in the book: while the workers' rights movement demands higher wages and fairer treatment, it does not demand an alleviation of hard work per se. Rather, the movement seeks to restore the dignity of hard work to the migrants. When the workers are respected, when expectations are high and achievement acknowledged, this is when human beings can begin to find in their labor the transcendence here described. (Quoted from somewhere)