Work Quotes - Page 37

• There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Despair, Calling

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.168

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• I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Success, Order, Years

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• Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Difficulty, Plans

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• Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

  Christopher Fry

  Doom, Stills

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.221, Oberon Books

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• Someone has to do everything that is done.

  Richard L. Evans

  Done

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• I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Brain, Dangerous, Mischief

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• The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

  Rudger Clawson

  Effort, Attainment, Objects

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• One who works twice as hard will have four times as much accomplishment. If he works 3 times as hard he will have 9 times as much accomplishment and 9 times more fun in the process.

  Sterling W Sill

  Fun, Accomplishment, Four

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• I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. I wish to use every waking hour to give encouragement, to bless those whose burdens are heavy, to build faith and strength of testimony.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Giving, Wish

  "Testimony". Ensign magazine, p. 69, May 1998.

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• To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Character, Men

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• Those who work much do not work hard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hard Work, Hard

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.26, New York Review of Books

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• There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

  Marianne Moore

  Sometimes, Pleasure, Conscious

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Doe, Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work.

  Lettie Cowman

  Important, Lord, Workers

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• In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

  Peter Ustinov

  Done, Way

  Nicholas Fraser, Kate Caffrey, Peter Ustinov, Carl Sagan, Eric Sevareid (1978). “Aristotle Onassis”

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• A good solid bit of work lasts.

  George Eliot

  Lasts, Bits

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.429, Delphi Classics

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• Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Littles

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.471

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• Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

  Ernest Renan

  Jobs, Relax, Different

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• All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Done

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

  William Penn

  Mind, Body, Want

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Men, Style

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.242, Open Road Media

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• Work makes a callus against grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grief, Calluses

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• He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Law, Faculty

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

  Bertrand Russell

  Good Day, Bad Day

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.127, Psychology Press

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• It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

  John Ruskin

  Two, Healthy, Made

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories”, p.169, Cosimo, Inc.

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