Work Quotes - Page 8

• But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.

  August Spies

  Thinking, Flames, Fire

  Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

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• There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

  Wendell Berry

  Done, Good Work, Work To Be Done

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

  Arthur Symons

  Certain

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• Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Humble, Mind, Lifetime

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• The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

  Robert Genn

  Heart, Body

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• If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, One Day, Days Off

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• The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

  Karl Marx

  Powerful, Workers, Powerless

  Karl Marx, Eugene Kamenka (1983). “The Portable Karl Marx”, Viking Adult

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• Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Folly, Labor

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.976, Delphi Classics

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• Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Sky, Periods

  Henry Ford (2006). “My Life and Work”, p.213, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

  Michelle Obama

  Matter, Hard

  Michelle Obama's Remarks at a Campaign Event in Richmond, Virginia, www.whitehouse.gov. September 13, 2012.

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• What you work hardest at, you love the most.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Hard Work, Hardest

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• The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

  Ice T

  Successful, Truth Is, Mets

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• The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.

  Patrick Dixon

  Thinking, Talking, Opposites

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

  Diane Ackerman

  Jobs, Coffee, Home

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• Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, World, Made

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.92

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• Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

  Elbert Hubbard

  Effort, Lazy, Laziness

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen”, p.369, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Play, Literature, Toys

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• The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Done, May, Moors

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.224

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• Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Poison, Vigor

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Almighty, Genuine

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.81

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• Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

  Walter Scott

  Eye, Grace, Toil

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• With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

  Alice Cary

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.164

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• Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Inspire, Toil, Rewards

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• The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

  William Osler

  Men, Years, Political

  Address at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 22 Feb. 1905

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• Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.

  Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

  Cows, Trade, Wells

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