Workmen Quotes
78 quotes by 72 authors
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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
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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
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Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who…
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
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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
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
— Rudyard Kipling
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No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
— John Ruskin
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Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
— William Feather
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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
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
— Ivan Turgenev
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
— Calvin Coolidge
Who Wrote These Workmen Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 78 Workmen Quotes, led by these top contributors: