Quotes About Work

If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.

I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained.

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week.

The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

For some constitutions work is the cure for all ills.

While working night and day, I sometimes lose all recollection of the past, and then I experience the same sort of happiness I can imagine the dead feel; still, it is better than suffering.

For some temperaments work is a remedy for all afflictions.

Eh bien, quand je travaille, et je travaille nuit et jour, quand je travaille, il y a des moments où je ne me souviens plus, et quand je ne me souviens plus, je suis heureux à la manière des morts: mais cela vaut encore mieux que de souffrir.

Oh lavoro, lavoro! La mia passione, la mia gioia, la mia furia, a te spetta sfinire tutti i miei patimenti!

The gloomy light, the silence and the awful poetry of night had no doubt combined with the fearful poetry of her conscience: the poisoner was afraid to see her work.

To a just Providence was necessary an instrument, at once penetrating, persevering, and convincing, to accomplish a great work.

L'amour, c'est une chose privée, qu'on vous dit! Pour après les fatigues des journées salariées, les soins aux chiards et tout le tintouin domestique.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Under wage labor, the art advances, the artisan declines.

Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.

Dans l'un et l'autre de ces pays, on arrive par des causes différentes à ce résultat, que c'est la partie la plus généreuse, la plus active, la plus industrieuse de la nation, qui consacre ses secours à fournir de quoi vivre à ceux qui ne font rien ou font un mauvais usage de leur travail.

Germans Francis Grund, and Francis Lieber, and the Pole Adam G. de Gurowski all wrote about the striking social equality they found in America, the absence of differences in status. They all noted the American obsession with work and the restless quest for the "almighty dollar."18

By and large, I feel that the more interesting work in the field of murder is done by amateurs. They are people who perform their work with dignity and good taste, leavened with a sense of the grotesque. There is polite and wholesome mayhem, practiced by civilized people, and I personally enjoy it.

Jesus] said to his disciples, The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master