Quotes About Drudgery

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed : pay the price and it is yours.

The point of this work and the Christian life as a whole is not burden and drudgery, but joy. Jesus

Life was menial and lacked enchantment.

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

Work is the province of cattle.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

People are making careful, comely, dignified work of the essential tasks defined by modern values as "drudgery." And because they have thought of the well-being of all the people, all are busy. There is a use for everyone. The Amish do not have the abandoned children, cast-off old people, criminals, indigents, and vagrants whom we have "freed from drudgery." And

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

and generally acquainted yourself with how tedious normal life is...

But the grinding of even soft stones is a tedious and laborious process; granite or diorite, both extremely hard, demand a willingness to endure drudgery that no human group had ever imposed in itself before. Our very word to express ennui, 'boring,' derives from-boring. Here was ritual repetition pushed almost beyond endurance.

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

Work sucks. That's why it isn't called 'fun'.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Partitions and cubicles can be oppressive. They are so boring.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

A vision without a task is but a dream; a task without a vision is but drudgery; a vision and a task is the hope of the world. —From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730