Tuesday 5 March 2019

Work - Quotes

A man is seen in his works. - Clement Metezeau

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and withal the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby.... The man is now a man. - Thomas Carlyle

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work. - Cesare Pavese

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. - Thomas Carlyle

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labour and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. - L. P. Jacks

A work well begun is half ended. - Plato

After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure. - George Horace Lorimer

All work is empty save when there is love. - Kahlil Gibran

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations. - Henry Ward Beecher

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. - Thomas Carlyle

Call no work low that is honest; honest toil never degrades. - Martha Lavinia Hoffman

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition. - Elbert Hubbard

Each man delights in the work that suits him best. - Horace

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky. - Henry Ford

Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself. - Samuel Butler

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are. - Paul McAuley

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it. - Zig Ziglar

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting. - Evan Esar

Hard work cheerfully done is easy work, while light work unwillingly done is mere drudgery. - E. P. Day

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Honest labour bears a lovely face. - Thomas Dekker

How hard you work matters more than how much you make. - Michelle Obama

How strange it is that so many people have the belief that work is a burden and that idleness means happiness. Many are longing for the day that they will possess sufficient to quit work and take the world easy. They imagine that when that time comes their happiness will be complete. Alas, how many have reached this period of life to find themselves greatly disappointed! Idleness fails to give the happiness they expected and time drags more heavily than ever. The hardest job we ever tried was that of doing nothing. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better. - Donald Trump

I am not sure that life, to any one, a fuller measure of contentment brings, with all its gifts, than in the draught which springs, from honest work, well plann'd, and bravely done. - William Wilsey Martin

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. - Bill Clinton

I don't like work – no man does – but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. - Joseph Conrad

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him. - George Ade

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get. - Bill Haywood

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