Quotes
Quotes about World
Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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 hand of toil!
O, how full of briers is this working-day world!
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. â¢Vince Lombardi or â¢Donald Kendall My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. â¢Indira Gandhi I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. â¢Douglas Adams There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. â¢William Bennett The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. â¢Robert Frost When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. â¢Maksim Gorky One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. â¢Elbert Hubbard It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. â¢Jerome K Jerome One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. â¢Bertrand Russell Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. â¢Lily Tomlin Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. â¢Robert Benchley Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. â¢Thomas Edison Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. â¢Sam Ewing Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. â¢David McCullough Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. â¢John G. Pollard Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. â¢Mark Twain
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own, It is the worst world that ever was known.
Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
This world's a bubble.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.
Let the world slide.
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft.
But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.
Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.
He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says--what says he?--Caw.
'Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own; 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.
