Indira Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister (1917-1984)
Good work is always done in defiance of management.
Robert Woodward, US journalist (b. 1943)
It’s not enough to be busy. The question is, what are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau, US essayist, poet (1817-1862)
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T Washington, US educator (1856-1915)
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost, US poet (1874-1963)
A man who works with his hands is a labourer; a man who works with his hands and his brains is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Louis Nizer, British lawyer (1902-1994)
There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
Joseph Marie De Maistre, French diplomat, author (1753-1821)
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin, British author, art critic (1819-1900)
The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, British Prime Minister (1848-1930)
The law of work does seem utterly unfair – but there it is, and nothing can change it; the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in money also.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known as Mark Twain, US author (1835-1910)
Work seven days a week and nothing can stop you.
John Moores, British entrepreneur, philanthropist (1896-1993)
The Encyclopaedia of Famous Last Words does not contain the entry, ‘I wish I’d spend more time at the office.’
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