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Work Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here…
- I work as my father drank.
- Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you…
- Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad…
- It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is…
- A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything…
- If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
- Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
- No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
- The harder I work the more I live.
- The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
- I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will…
- Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very…
- When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
- The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
- You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
- I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its…
- A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
- The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I…
- That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them…
- Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
- Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep…
- A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's…
- I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its…
- I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach