Quotes About Work

Laziness begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.

The more you know of your own line of work, by so much do you set yourself a little apart from a hundred of your competitors who are content to let well enough alone.

Mr. Arthur Brisbane says: One thing above all brings success—to like your work and to be interested in it; and not to like your work is the one thing above all others that brings failure.

Learn to labor and to wait. —Longfellow.

Remember that it is only through your work that you can grow to your full height.

people. They do all their work three times over: once in anticipation, once in actuality, once in rumination. I do mine in actuality alone, doing it once instead of three times. This was by the intelligent exercise of Mr. Beecher's will-power in concentrating his mind upon what he was doing at a given moment, and then turning to something else. Any one who has observed business men closely, has noticed this characteristic. One

Agassiz would not lecture at five hundred dollars a night, because he had no time to make money.

He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

Perhaps it's called the end of the world because it's the end of the games, because I can go to one of the villages and become one of the little boys working and playing there, with nothing to kill and nothing to kill me, just living there. As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what just living might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

He pulled out a single half-blackened disc of bronze. Money, he said. You get it by working, and then you trade it for things you want. But it's so small, said Runnel. So's your wit, said the man, and turned away.

Then you're hired, Lieutenant. I can abide a life outside the IF, but I can't abide life without my wife's stir-fry.

but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing

H]e had come to work for what the fee could buy, and not for joy of the work itself.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.