Work Quotes - Page 5

The Gods rank work above virtues.

Hesiod

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

Robert Benchley

It is not upon thee to finish the work neither art thou free to abstain from it.

Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty.

Voltaire

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw

We work to become not to acquire.

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities then every business office government agency golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

John W. Gardner

Hasten slowly and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil.

Nicolas Boileau

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.

Charles Baudelaire

Miracles sometimes occur but one has to work terribly hard for them.

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Chance favours only those who know how to court her.

Charles Nicolle

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength his glory and his pleasure.

If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When white-collar people get jobs they sell not only their time and energy but their personalities as well. They sell by week or month their smiles and their kindly gestures and they must practise prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

C. Wright Mills

He that can work is a born king of something.

Love of bustle is not industry.

Seneca

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.

Ayn Rand

By the work one knows the workman.

Jean de La Fontaine

Because it is less structured than work leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. Workaholics practically climb the wall when they can't work.

Marilyn Machlowitz

Give the labourer his wage before his perspiration be dry.

Muhammad

I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

Jerome K. Jerome

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.

Goethe

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Herodotus

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.

One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Anonymous

One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.

William Faulkner

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business the essential component in the success of every factory the ideal of every statesman.

Alfred North Whitehead

The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.

They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance.

Unionism seldom if ever uses such powers as it has to ensure better work almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

Work is of two kinds: first altering a position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter second telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill-paid the second is pleasant and highly paid.

Bertrand Russell

As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.

Charles Baudelaire

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Most people like hard work particularly when they're paying for it.

Franklin P. Jones

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.

Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.

Charles Caleb Colton

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Fairlane

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Daniel Boorstin

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

Anonymous

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

Anonymous

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."

Melvin Helitzer

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