Workmen Quotes

78 quotes by 72 authors

There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a… — George Sand
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled.Â All our difficulty comes with the others.Â When did you meet a workman who… — C.S. Lewis
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like… — Thomas Carlyle
The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to achieve this result,… — Auguste Escoffier
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not… — John Naughton
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. — Thomas Jefferson
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is… — Mencius
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either… — David Hume
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. — William Shakespeare
Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but… — Thomas Adams
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic… — Albert Camus
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew. — Rudyard Kipling
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. — John Ruskin
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. — William Feather
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give… — Will Durant
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. — Ivan Turgenev
Workmenâ€™s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment. — Calvin Coolidge

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