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While a person gets they can never lose.
-Scottish Proverb
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Do not employ handsome servants.
-Chinese Proverb
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If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
-Chinese Proverb
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A man grows most tired while standing still.
-Chinese Proverb
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If a task has once begun.
Never leave it till it's done.
Be the labor great or small.
Do it well or not at all.
-Anon.
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The Devil finds work for idle hands.
First Appeared in 1721
-Proverb, 1721
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The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
-Proverb
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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
-Proverb
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The work praises the man.
-Proverb
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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
-Proverb
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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
-Proverb
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Plaster thick, some will stick.
-Proverb
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Want is the mother of industry.
-Proverb
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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
-Proverb
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Work is a part of life, not the point of it.
-Sean Adams
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The tougher the job, the greater the reward.
-George Allen
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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
-Maya Angelou
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If you're not a white male, consider sales seriously. Most employers, regardless of how sexist or racist they may be, will pay for any sales they can get. And they care little for the color or gender of the person who brings that business to the firm. Most will be glad to get the business even if it comes from a green, bisexual Martian.
-Ramona E.F. Arnett
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
-Antonin Artaud, 1947
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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.
-Evelyn Ashford
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
-Brooks Atkinson
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.
-W. H. Auden
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
-W. H. Auden
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
-Jane Austen
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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
-Colleen C. Barrett
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Books about Work
