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When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.
Armand Hammer1898–1990
- Luck
Freud’s prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Pieces of Eight (1982)
- Love
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison1833–1901Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5
- Economics
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Spirit of the Age (1825), “Mr. Brougham — Sir F. Burdett”
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book II, Chapter 12In context
- Comedy
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock, The Philistine magazine, May 1913
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Happiness
If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Note Book (1927)
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers; it is the only prayer that deserves an answer, — good, honest, noble work.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Prayer
The great error in Rip’s composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor.
Washington Irving1783–1859Rip Van Winkle (1819)In context
Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.
Washington Irving1783–1859Rip Van Winkle (1819)In context
- Money
In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody’s business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible.
Washington Irving1783–1859Rip Van Winkle (1819)In context
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.
L. P. Jacks1860–1955Education through Recreation (1932), p. 1.