Quotes
Quotes about Work
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.
Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.
I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work.
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury systemâthat is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.
Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.
A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs.
On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
