Work Quotes

One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opportunity for the independent exercise of their talents, but have to hire themselves out to rich corporations directed by Philistines, who insist upon their producing what they themselves regard as pernicious nonsense. If you were to inquire among journalists in either England or America whether they believed in the policy of the newspaper for which they worked, you would find, I believe, that only a small minority do so; the rest, for the sake of a livelihood, prostitute their skill to purposes which they believe to be harmful. Such work cannot bring any real satisfaction, and in the course of reconciling himself to the doing of it, a man has to make himself so cynical that he can no longer derive whole-hearted satisfaction from anything whatever. I cannot condemn men who undertake work of this sort, since starvation is too serious an alternative, but I think that where it is possible to do work that is satisfactory to man’s constructive impulses without entirely starving, he will be well advised from the point of view of his own happiness if he chooses it in preference to work much more highly paid but not seeming to him worth doing on its own account. Without self-respect genuine happiness is scarcely possible. And the man who is ashamed of his work can hardly achieve self-respect.

Bertrand Russell

The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce.

Finish the work, otherwise an unfinished work will finish you.

To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously.

Aristotle

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

Many hands make light work.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

The laborer is worthy of his hire.

Bible

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

Penelope Lively

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

Ivy Baker Priest

When Adam dolve and Eve span Who was then the gentleman?

John Ball

Better to wear out than to rust out.

Bishop Cumberland

The workers are the saviors of society the redeemers of the race.

Handle your tools without mittens.

Benjamin Franklin

Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.

I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Thomas Alva Edison

It's all in the day's work.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Benjamin Franklin

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.

Bible

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame And no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame But each for the joy of the working and each in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of things as They Are!

Rudyard Kipling

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil!

James Russell Lowell

How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mould a pin or fabricate a nail!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand in fact we should have our arms around one another.

Cloris Leachman

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Jeannette Rankin

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination compromise and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants by compromise neither side gets what it wants by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

Mary Parker Follett

Women and men have to fight together to change society-and both will benefit.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Cooperation is an intelligent functioning of the concept of laissez faire-a thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.

Virginia Burden Tower

Most leaders are indispensable but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved.

Anne Firor Scott

Communication is a continual balancing act juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world we have to act in concert with others but to survive as ourselves rather than simply as cogs in a wheel we have to act alone.

My whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me.

Queen Elizabeth II

A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever at any time to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

Penelope Lively

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes by virtue of their common womanhood the property of all women.

Elizabeth Blackwell

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories for all our differences turn out if we listen well to be our stories also.

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal do not beg do not grovel. Take courage join hands stand beside us fight with us.

Christabel Pankhurst

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain you may be doing some good work.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Women's art though created in solitude wells up out of community. There is clearly both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused and an explosion of creative energy bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

We must stand together if we don't there will be no victory for any one of us.

There are two kinds of talents man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent you just touch it up once in a while.

If you want something done ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do the more you can do.

With the power of conviction there is no sacrifice.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time the distinction between work and play dissolves.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

Ellen Gilchrist

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it for it is a faculty of the psyche.

It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work

As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.

Katharine Hepburn

There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

Maria Montessori

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

Anna Howard Shaw

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

Barbara Walters

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