Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier
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“Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.”
Source: America and the World War
“Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.”
“We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work.”
Source: The Measure of Our Hearts
“Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.”
“Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.”
Source: Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation
“Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.”
“The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.”
Source: In Praise of Idleness
“The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
“Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.”
“If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.”
Source: Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution
“An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.”
“There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
“There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Work to learn. Don't work for money.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.”
“I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.”
“Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.”
“Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.”
Source: Dancing in the dark
“If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.”
Source: THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY
“If a woman's work is never done, she should start earlier.”
“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”