Ambition Quote by Henry Ford

“And wings without dreams was drudgery.”

— Danyelle Leafty

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

— Herbert Marcuse

“Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.”

— Geraldine Brooks

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

— Charles Lamb

Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They…

— Herbert Hoover

I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry.…

— Richard MacDonald

In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish…

— Tanith Lee

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed…

— Adrian Rogers

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class…

— James Henry Hammond

the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults.…

— Shulamith Firestone

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years…

— Paul Goodman

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

— Matthew McConaughey