WORK QUOTES II
quotations about work
The work praises the workman.
ROGER PAYNE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The first assignment that God gave to man was work. God gave man work before He gave man a wife.
AL MILLER
"The transforming power of work", Jamaica Observer, April 2, 2017
A man is seen in his works.
CLEMENT METEZEAU
attributed, Day's Collacon
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
ANNE FRANK
The Diary of a Young Girl
If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The Note Book
This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk!
The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work.
This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil:
Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"The Toiling of Felix"
I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.
SCOTT ADAMS
Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Made to Last
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.
BILL CLINTON
speech in Memphis, November 13, 1993
Work is the mechanism that drives production.
AL MILLER
"The transforming power of work", Jamaica Observer, April 2, 2017
What is earned with hard labor is eaten with pleasure.
CHINESE PROVERB
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Autobiography
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
ANDRE GIDE
Journals
Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
My Heart Laid Bare
It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.
WILLIAM MORRIS
"Useful Work vs Useless Toil", Signs of Change: Seven Lectures, Delivered on Various Occasions
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours -- all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
The Paris Review, spring 1956
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
This Side of Paradise
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
EMILY BRONTË
Wuthering Heights
It isn't the hours you put in your work that count, it's the work you put in the hours.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede