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Category: Work and Laziness

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1. "Man often finds relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another."

Anatol France

2. "Take off your hat to your yesterdays; take off your coat for your tomorrows."

proverb

Quotations about: Time and Passing

3. "A BAD day's fishing still beats a GOOD day at work!"

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Quotations about: Wit and Humor

4. "Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Quotations about: Life and Death

5. "Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit."

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Quotations about: Marriage

6. "If you rest, you rust."

Helen Hayes, "My Life in Three Acts"

7. "In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."

Margaret Thatcher

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Woman and Man

8. "You work hard to be good and then to be great, but when you're great, you don't just want to be good."

Pat Bradley

Quotations about: Success and Fame

9. "Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

Fawn M. Brodie

Quotations about: Education

10. "I am never in such good company as when I am alone; I am never so busy as when I have nothing to do."

Scipio Africanus

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

11. "An Artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

Emile Zola

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Talent and Genius

12. "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Helen Keller

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

13. "Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."

Henri Matisse

Quotations about: Happiness

14. "Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."

Robert A. Heinlein

15. "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

Katharine Whitehorn

16. "The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little."

William Jennings Bryan

Quotations about: Success and Fame

17. "No rules for success will work if you don't."

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Quotations about: Success and Fame

18. "Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

Napoleon Hill

Quotations about: Richness and Money

19. "Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done."

Peter Drucker

Quotations about: Authority, Government

20. "Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

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21. "Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?"

John Clarke

22. "One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Quotations about: Various

23. "God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

Quotations about: God and Religion

24. "The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"

William Morris, "News From Nowhere"

Quotations about: Life and Death

25. "Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything."

Floyd Dell

26. "In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."

John C. Dvorak

Quotations about: Science and Technology

27. "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

Ogden Nash

Quotations about: Richness and Money

28. "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Various

29. "The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

George Bernard Shaw, "Parents and Children"

Quotations about: Happiness

30. "The shortest answer is doing."

English proverb

Quotations about: Question and Problem

31. "Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged."

St. Jerome, "Epistulae"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience -:- Good and Evil

32. "Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity."

John Lennon

Quotations about: Life and Death

33. "There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."

Marlene Dietrich, "Marlene Dietrich’s ABC"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

34. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare.""

C. Northcote Parkinson

Quotations about: Time and Passing

35. "Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "In Search of Goethe from Within"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

36. "An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Revolt of the Masses"

37. "Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form."

André Maurois, "The Art of Living"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

38. "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

John Adams

Quotations about: Various

39. "Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

40. "We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."

Roald Dahl

Quotations about: Time and Passing

41. "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "

Robert Lee Frost

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

42. "Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."

Louisa May Alcott

43. "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Truth and Falsity

44. "There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."

Mary Wilson Little

45. "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Andrew Carnegie

Quotations about: Success and Fame

46. "Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want."

Robert Bringle

Quotations about: Envy

47. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Talent and Genius

48. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Andy Warhol, "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

49. "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Jim Rohn

Quotations about: Success and Fame

50. "One generation plants trees, another gets the shade."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Time and Passing

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