- Find
a job you like and you add five days to every week."
H. Jackson Browne
-
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity
to do it, is the key to happiness."
John Dewey
-
"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."
Sam Ewig
- "A
lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately,
they don't have a J.O.B."
Fats Domino
- "Men
for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
Margaret Fuller
- "Going
to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you
going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an
hour and you're just sitting still?"
J. Paul Getty
- "Work
is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only
with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and
sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work
with joy."
Kahlil Gibran
- "Work
is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
Pablo Picasso
- "Work
is a necessary evil to be avoided."
Mark Twain
- "The
better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal
cost."
William Carlos Williams
- "Seest
thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings;
he shall not stand before mean men."
Old Testament, Proverbs, XXII, 29
- "We
demand that big business give people a square deal."
Theodore Roosevelt, Letter
- "That
which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler
- "Absence
of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Cowper, Retirement
- "The
race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong...."
Old Testament
-
Talent is developed in retirement: character is formed in the
rush of the world.
Goethe, Tasso, I, 2
- "In
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread".
Old Testament, Genesis, III, 19
- "Blessed
is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
Carlyle, Past and Present
- "Work-work-work
Till the brain begins to swim;
Work-work-work
Till the eyes are heavy and dim"
- "Sewing
at once with a double thread
A Shroud as well as a Shirt."
Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt
- "If
any would not work, neither should he eat."
New Testament, II Thessalonians, III, 10
- "From
each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"
Karl Marx
- "Each
morning sees some task begun,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose."
Longfellow, The German Ideology
- "And
only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate
star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as they
are!"
Kipling
- "The
laborer is worthy of his hire."
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