Quotes

Quotes about Work


Jove strikes the Titans down
Not when they set about their mountain-piling
But when another rock would crown the work.

Robert Browning

What's come to perfection perishes.
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

Robert Browning

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,
And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets:
May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Robert Browning

Work, and thou wilt bless the day
Ere the toil be done;
They that work not, can not pray,
Can not feel the sun.
God is living, working still,
All things work and move;
Work, or lose the power to will,
Lose the power to love.

John Sullivan Dwight

There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions;
Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Men must work, and women must weep.
And there's little to earn and many to keep,
And the harbor bar is moaning.

Charles Kingsley

No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him. There is always work,
And tools to work withal, for those who will;
And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

James Russell Lowell

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

James Russell Lowell

Of every noble work the silent part is best,
Of all expression that which can not be expressed.

William Wetmore Story

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

John Ruskin

Work first and then rest.

John Ruskin

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Ulysses Simpson Grant

For want of me the world's course will not fail;
When all its work is done the lie shall rot;
The truth is great and shall prevail
When none cares whether it prevail or not.

Coventry Kearsey Deighton Patmore

Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's victory won,
Now cometh rest.

Hazen Parker, MD

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Father, I scarcely dare to pray,
So clear I see, now it is done,
How I have wasted half my day,
And left my work but just begun.

Helen Hunt Jackson

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A little work, a little play
To keep us going--and so good-day!


A little warmth, a little light
Of love's bestowing--and so, good-night.


A little fun, to match the sorrow
Of each day's growing--and so, good-morrow!


A little trust that when we die
We reap our sowing--and so--good-bye!

George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun
His day's work and his night's work are undone:
And lo, between the nightfall and the light,
He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Though our works
Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this
At least is ours, to make them righteous.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Aggressive Fancy working spells
Upon a mind o'erwrought.

Thomas Hardy

Nature abhors imperfect work
And on it lays her ban;
And all creation must despise
A tailless man.

David Law (Peleg Arkwright) Proudfit

The Golden Rule works like gravitation.

Charles Fletcher Dole

Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

Charles Fletcher Dole

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