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Work Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
- A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
- All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor…
- The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is…
- Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little…
- The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
- I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did…
- Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable…
- There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where…
- Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
- What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail…
- Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
- It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that…
- The classes that wash most are those that work least.
- The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told…
- Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in…
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