Work Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

  Havelock Ellis

  Labour

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

  Quintilian

  Eye, Mind, Ears

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• ... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Giving, Doe

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

  Hal Borland

  Humble, Airplane, Journey

  Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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• Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Way, Ambiguous, Sentiments

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Good workmen are seldom rich.

  George Herbert

  Rich, Good Work, Workmen

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.326

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• Make hay while the sun shines.

  John Heywood

  Opportunity, Shining, Hay

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Meaningful, Meaningful Work

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• Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Pain, Loneliness, Overcoming

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• Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

  John Mason Brown

  Order, People, Desire

  George Cooper Stevens, John Mason Brown (1974). “Speak for yourself, John: the life of John Mason Brown, with some of his letters and many of his opinions”, Viking Adult

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• A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

  Max Beerbohm

  Men, Outcomes, Supplements

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• Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

  Arthur Bloch

  Errors, Reliability, Done

  Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

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• It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

  Heraclitus

  Toiling, Weariness

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• Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Different, Form

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

  Liz Carpenter

  Needed, Wanted

  Liz Carpenter (1993). “Getting Better All the Time”, Texas A & M University Press

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• Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

  Mary Daly

  Religious, Substitutes, Workaholic

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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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• Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

  Armand Hammer

  Past, Elderly, Dust

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

  Walter Smith

  Toil, Decay, Ruins

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• School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

  Julian Fellowes

  School, Careers, Interesting

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• We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

  Samuel Florman

  Emotional, Feelings, Trying

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• It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

  Randall Wright

  Mean, Doe, Busy

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• Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sacrifice, Sometimes, Made

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.77, Lulu.com

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