WORK QUOTES, work sayings , work quotations

Anonymous
A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

Anonymous
(inscription over Dachau concentration camp gates)
Arbeit macht frei.
Work liberates.

Baudelaire Charles 1821-1867
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.

Beadle E.R.
Half the work that is done in the world is to make
things appear what they are not.

Belloc Hilaire 1870-1953
New Cautionary Tales „Peter Goole"
And even now, at twenty-five,
He has to WORK to keep alive!
Yes! All day long from 10 till 4!
For half the year or even more;
With but an hour or two to spend
At luncheon with a city friend.

Benchley Robert 1889-1945
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: II Thessalonians ch.3 v.10
If any would not work, neither should he eat.

BOILEAU Nicolas 1636-1711
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work
twenty times upon the anvil.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Camus Albert 1913-1960
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Carlyle Thomas 1795-1881
He that can work is a born king of something.

Chanel Coco 1883-1971
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chesterton G. K. 1874-1936
The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834
‘Work without Hope'
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.

Coolidge Calvin 1872-1933
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Courtenay Walter R.
God gave man work, not to burden him, but to bless him, and useful work, willingly, cheerfully, effectively done, has always been the finest expression of the human spirit.

Coward Noël 1899-1973
Work is more fun than fun.

Edison Thomas Alva 1847-1931
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results.
I know several thousand things that won't work.

Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) 1894-1972
(speaking at derelict Iron and Steel Works)
Something should be done to get them at work again.

Einstein Albert 1879-1962
How do I work? I grope.

Einstein Albert 1879-1955
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is
x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

Freud Martin 1895-1982
I didn't know the full facts of life until I was 17.
My father [Sigmund Freud] never talked about
his work.

Freud Sigmund 1856-1939
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Getty Paul 1892-1976
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Gibran Kahlil 1883-1931
The Prophet „On 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.

Gilman Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935
The people work with best are often very queer.

Hope Bib 1903-
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Hubbard Elbert 1959-1915
We work to become, not to acquire.

Huxley Aldous 1894-1963
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

INGE William R. 1860-1954
A man usually does his best work just before he is found out.

JEROME Jerome k. 1859-1927
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jones Franklin P.
Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

Kaiser Henry J. 1882-1967
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

KASLUCK Lady
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.

Kingsley Charles 1819-1875
‘The Invitation. To Tom Hughes'
What we can we will be,
Honest Englishmen.
Do the work that's nearest,
Though it's dull at whiles,
Helping, when we meet them,
Lame dogs over stiles.

Kingsley Charles 1819-1875
‘The Three Fishers'
For men must work, and women must weep,
And there's little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbour bar be moaning.

La Fontaine Jean de 1621-1695
By the work one knows the workman.

Leacock Stephen 1869-1944
I'm a great believer in luck. I find the
harder I work, the more I have of it.

Lewis Sinclair 1885-1951
Babbitt
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres detail and never quite understands them.

Lodge David 1935-
Small World
I gave up screwing around a long time ago. I came to the conclusion that sex is a sublimation of the work instinct.

Lowell James Russell 1819-1891
‘A Glance Behind the Curtain'
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 blessèd are the horny hands of toil!

Luther Martin 1483-1546
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger;forwhen I am angry,Ican write,pray, and preach well,for then
my whole temperament is quickened,my understanding sharpened,and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

MacNeice Louis 1907-1963
‘Bagpipe Music'
It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;
Work your hands from day to day, the winds will
blow the profit.
The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will
fall for ever,
But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold
up the weather.

Matisse Henri 1869-1954
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

Mottoes and Slogans
(advertising slogan)
A Mars a day, helps you work, rest and play.

Mottoes and Slogans
(advertising slogan, British Egg Marketing Bord)
Go to work on an egg.

Nelson Horatio Lord 1758-1805
(at the battle of Trafalgar)
This is too warm work, Hardy, to last long.

Newman John Henry, Cardinal 1801-1890
Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our  work is done! Then in His mercy may he give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest,
and peace at the last.

O'Hara Neal
We forget that money gives its value - that someone exchanged work for it.

Parkinson Northcote 1909-1993
Parkinson's Law
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Peter Laurence 1910-1990
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

Peter Laurence 1910-1990
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Player Gary 1935-
The harder you work, the luckier you get.

POGREBIN Letty Cottin
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love - except the housewife.

Pollard J. G.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting
somebody else to do the work.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Man
A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;
An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Proverbs and Sayings
Jewish
The hardest work is to go idle.

Queneau Raymond 1903-1976
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

Reik Theodor 1888-1969
Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Richler Mordecai 1931-
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time.Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

Rodin Auguste 1840-1917
One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

Roosevelt Theodore 1858-1919
I am only an average man, but, by George, I work
harder at it than the average man.

Rowland Helen 1875-1950
Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
When you see what some girls marry, you realize
how much they must hate to work for a living.

Runes Dagobert
Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Ruskin John 1819-1900
Sesame and Lilies
Which of us ... is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest - and for what
pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
The Conquest of Happiness
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations.
People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Sand George 1804-1876
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and
his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sandburg Carl 1878-1967
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits
on its hands and goes to work.

Santayana George 1863-1952
Work and love - these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

Schweitzer Albert 1875-1965
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true
and profound thought - that is a real force.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Hamlet
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Henry IV, Part 1
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished to
come.

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were
failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
I work as my father drank.

Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr 1918-
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a
fool you simply gave him eye-wash.

Steinbeck John 1902-1968
The Grapes of Wrath
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, merges ahead of his accomplishments.

Story William Wetmore 1819-1895
Of every noble work the silent part is best,
Of all expression that cannot be expressed.

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

Tawney R.H. 1880-1962
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable
him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is
good for any of the children of Adam.

Tebbit Norman 1931-
I grew up in the Thirties with our unemployed father. He did
not riot, he got on his bike and looked for work.

Tillich Paul 1886-1965
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.

Tolstoy Leo 1828-1910
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

Voltaire 1694-1778
Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.

Ware Eugene Fitch 1841-1911
Work brings its own relief;
He who most idle is
Has most of grief.

Weizmann Chaim 1874-1952
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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