Best work & years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.”

Men World Years Two Work Cities He Man Sorrow Eternal Standards Labor Crosses Lonely Wander Thirty Shops Village Agony Homeless Obscure Success And Failure Shameful Carpenter True Life

Author:Frederic Farrar

“There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.”

World Years Littles Done Whole Natural Work Duty Months Machines Whole Life Inevitable Degrade Drudgery

Book:The Outline of History

Source: The Outline of History

“How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.”

Way Years Suffering Work Simple Events Punishment Fatigue Disagreeable Simple Truths Sufferings In Life

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.”

People Years Work Novel Plant Significant Teeth Fifty Assembly Fixing Significant Things

Author:Thomas McGuane

“The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.”

Ifs Men Years Matter Would Be Age Political Courses Work Benefits Sixty Uselessness Professional Life

Author:William Osler

“After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.”

Men Want Giving Years Kind Found Fun Work Pay Enemy He Man Fellows Shining Satisfaction Forty Dislike Harsh Wages Acquaintance

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.”

“I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.”

Years Wells Stills Work Gun Starting Track Ran Halfway

Author:Joss Whedon

“In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.”

“The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.”

Years States Girl Work Ready Activity Capable Hundred Ideals Womanhood Earnest Descendants Dreamy Sturdy Hampshire New Hampshire

Author:Lucy Larcom

“To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.”

“...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.”

Years Hard Seems Work Poverty Hard Work Hardship Assets

Author:Sue Sanders

“In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.”

Years Work Subjects Months Periods Patience Fruit Perseverance Concentration Great Work Tenacious Summary Patience And Perseverance

Book:Advice for a Young Investigator

Source: Advice for a Young Investigator

“I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.”

“How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.”

Want Years Children Self Purpose Work Sleep Pleasure Willing Comfort Activity Deny Ease Defeated Restless

Author:Ida Tarbell

“Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.”

World Should Years Mean Made Work Beauty Doors Weak Should Have Employment Competitors Great Work Workshops Very Mean Underpaid Prettiness

Author:Jane Swisshelm

“the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.”

Years Long Passion Work Vision Fire Pursuit Stubborn Compulsion

Author:Silvia Tennenbaum

“Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.”

Thinking Giving Should Years Mind Work Materials Hollywood Meetings Oscars

Author:William Goldman

“I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.”

Years Play Kids Work Chance Music Six Dolls Six Year Olds

Author:Billie Holiday

“Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.”

Thinking Want Years Stills Hard Bigs Work Five Five Years Think Big

Author:Chanel Iman

“Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.”

Men Feels Should Years Force Work Months Every Man Holiday Vacation Best Holiday Vacation Time Best Vacation

Book:Essays, Comments, and Reviews

Source: Essays, Comments, and Reviews

“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”

“What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.”

Years Motivational Lasts Motivation Work Economy Creative Imagine Ought Fifty Teamwork Imagine That Creative Work

Author:Stephen Leacock

“The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.”

Years Long Age Life Is Next Work Decision Secret Careers Thirty Sixty Long Life Thirty Years Double Standard

Author:David Ogilvy

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.”

Thinking Years Littles Play Jobs Sex Women Work Music Composer Orchestra Initials Conductor Astonishment Conducting Over 50 Battle Of The Sexes

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.”

“If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.”

Ifs Years Would Be Sports Work Memorable Holiday Motivational Sports Tedious Falstaff

Author:William Shakespeare

“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”

“The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.”

Years Ends Time Next Memories Work Seasons Plant Fruit Cycles Anticipation Timing Gardener Timeliness

Author:John Evelyn

“If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.”

People Ifs Want Should Years Humans Ends Left Work Human Beings Alive Hard Work Labor Cease Labour Divided Provision Subsistence

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

“Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.”

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”

Knows Years Ideas Success Nature Work Creativity Genius Twenties Innovation Idiot

Author:Louis Aragon

“And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.”

Years Different Facts Waiting Term Work Deals Records Ready Bandwagon

Author:Lee Ann Womack

“If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.”

“We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.”

Thinking Way Needs Years Has Beens Hard Today Work Capability

Author:Stephen Cambone

“I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.”

Years Hard Done Used Work Known Crazy Theater

Author:Sutton Foster

“Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.”

“Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile.”

Source: A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader

“You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.”

Ifs Want Life Years Stills Might Next Found Work Walks Steps Worry Danger Fields Mines Waste Beats Corners Convinced Strikes Flames Ambitious Odds Plates Next Year Step Up Radiance Betting Found You

Author:Dave Sim

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