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Work Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work…
- Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer…
- However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part…
- It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
- The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors…
- If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if…
- Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural…
- The devil finds work for idle hands.
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction -…
- Those who work much do not work hard.
- It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under…
- Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
- If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating…
- The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
- Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of…
- He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
- Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance…
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate…
- Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put…
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