Quotes
Quotes about Work
Nothing stayed still. A man changed his lodging, his place of work, his mistress; between man and wife love could die, a man's art or skill grew or languished or merely changed, and all beyond his control
I envy any man who can carve marble. To climb it is for me, in my present state, work enough
There is a whole wing of your mind's mansion unknown to you, where, as it were, work is already proceeding on your notion
The brain too is the body. It is a fine and cunning trelliswork, but we may eat brain as we eat feet and flanks. But there is one thing that is not to be eaten and that is the little fine saying I am I am I am
We want peace and we want war. The workers want to be left in peace to wage war against the bosses
I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something, too, of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality
There was never much point in moral activism in Great Britain, it was always a matter of waiting for the Americans to move. The colonies still worked for the old mother bitch
Revolutions are usually the work of disgruntled intellectuals with the gift of the gab ... They go to the barricades in the name of the peasant or the working man. For "intellectuals of the world unite" is not a very inspiring slogan
And they say that love is the greatest thing; they persist in SAYING this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do! Look at all the millions of people who repeat every minute that love is the greatest, and charity is the greatest--and see what they are doing all the time. By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren't stand by their own actions, much less by their own words.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work,
Worry kills more people than work because more people worry than work.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Work to become, not to acquire.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however -Richard Bach
