Quotes About Work

Stealing is good, honest work, Said the theif, puffing out his chest. Well, not honest, strictly speaking, he admitted after a moment. Or actually good.

Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

the typical worker who through the whole of his life...pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquility...It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.

It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased;

Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible.

todas las demás artes y manufacturas las consecuencias de la división del trabajo son semejantes a las que se dan en esta industria tan sencilla, aunque en muchas de ellas el trabajo no puede ser así subdividido, ni reducido a operaciones tan sencillas. De todas formas, la división del trabajo ocasiona en cada actividad, en la medida en que pueda ser introducida, un incremento proporcional en la capacidad productiva del trabajo.

En toda sociedad avanzada el agricultor es sólo agricultor y el industrial sólo industrial.

gran multiplicación de la producción de todos los diversos oficios, derivada de la división del trabajo, da lugar, en una sociedad bien gobernada, a esa riqueza universal que se extiende hasta las clases más bajas del pueblo.

Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible. It is the call of nature, which requires to be relieved by some indulgence, sometimes of ease only, but sometimes too of dissipation and diversion. If it is not complied with, the consequences are

The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

gran incremento en la labor que un mismo número de personas puede realizar como consecuencia de la división del trabajo se debe a tres circunstancias diferentes; primero, al aumento en la destreza de todo trabajador individual; segundo, al ahorro del tiempo que normalmente se pierde al pasar de un tipo de tarea a otro; y tercero, a la invención de un gran número de máquinas que facilitan y abrevian la labor, y permiten que un hombre haga el trabajo

The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

It took more than one or two years before we got contacted by real clients as a result of the publicity. Fame is mostly talk. You need to convince people over time that you can do real and strong work.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

He figured that all the threads of his experience would eventually be sewn together, taking shape in harmony and form to create a glorious work of art.

There is a beehive under every pot of honey

There were all manners of souvenirs and trinkets for sale when Ciro and Luigi disembarked from the ferry into the port of lower Manhattan. Signs advertising Sherman Turner cigars, Zilita Black tobacco, and Roisin's Doughnuts graced rolling carts selling Sally Dally Notions and Flowers by Yvonne Benne. The stands competed for the immigrant business. Ciro and Luigi came face to face with the engine of American life: You work, and then you spend.

We need the work. We'll do a

Elizabeth chuckled. Sometimes seeing a kid suffer the indignity of having to work gave parents a secret joy.

By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.

There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was

I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!

Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.