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Every man’s work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
George Eliot1819–1880Silas Marner (1861), Part I, Chapter IIIn context
I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
Michael Faraday1791–1867Letter to John Tyndall (19 April 1851), The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, letter 2411
- Talking
The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940“Amory Blaine” in This Side of Paradise (1920) Bk. 2, Ch. 5
- Money
If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues’ initials on ‘em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes1919–1990
If you have a job without aggravation, you don’t have a job.
Malcolm Forbes1919–1990
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford1863–1947
- Thinking
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France1844–1924The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), Pt. II, ch. 4
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack (1737)
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790“Father Abraham’s Speech,” preface to: “Poor Richard Improved, 1758,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed 27 May 2020. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 7, October 1, 1756 through March 31, 1758, ed. Leonard W. Labaree.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
Idleness and Pride Tax with a heavier Hand than Kings and Parliaments; If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the Latter.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Charles Thomson, 11 July 1765
- Pride
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost1874–1963
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost1874–1963
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
Robert Frost1874–1963A Boy’s Will (1913, 1915), Mowing
- Facts