Work Quotes - Page 5

• The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Society, Willing

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.316, Oxford University Press

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• No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

  Frederic Farrar

  Lonely, Men, Agony

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• Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Form

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• Work is a four-letter word.

  Cilla Black

  Music, Society, Four

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• Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Labor Day, Vices

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• After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

  Thomas McGuane

  Years, Significant Things, People

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• I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Hero, Fighting

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• If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Prayer, Simple, Common Sense

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• Out of clutter, find simplicity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Thought Provoking

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

  Karl Marx

  Workers, Objects

  "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts". Book by Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor" (p. 134), 1844.

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• The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Needs, World, Slavery

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

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• More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, World, Importance

  "Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918)" by Rudyard Kipling, 1918.

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• There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

  Henry George

  Money, Way, Reason Why

  "Social Problems".

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• True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.

  Herman Melville

  Humanity, Wicked, Leisure

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

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• I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Fire

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

  Marge Piercy

  Happiness, Strong, Love Is

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• There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.

  H. G. Wells

  Years, Machines, Done

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

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• You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

  Bob Black

  Teacher, Stupid, Careers

  "The Abolition of Work". Book by Bob Black, 1985.

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• Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Change, Dream, May

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Courage, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.242, Рипол Классик

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• Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Feelings, Good Feeling

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

  Paul Gallico

  Facts, Craftsman, Concentration

  Paul Gallico (1961). “Further Confessions of a Story Writer: Stories Old and New”

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• In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Government, People

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.264, Best Books on

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