Quotes about work
220 quotes from 151 people
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”
Alexander Graham Bell1847–1922Bell Telephone Talk (1901)
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Charles Baudelaire1821–1867Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)
Gore Vidal1925–2012“Love Love Love,” Partisan Review (Spring 1959)The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly1868–1916The Re-Conquest of Ireland (1915), ch. VI “Woman”; repr. in P. Berresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly: Selected Writings (1973), p. 191
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881–1938Conversation with Romanian Foreign Minister Victor Antonescu on 20 March 1937
L. P. Jacks1860–1955Education through Recreation (1932), p. 1.We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983“The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In” by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine (30 March 1970), p. 30
Albert Einstein1879–1955Why Socialism? (1949)
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)- PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCThe Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave, Maxim 59
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
John Ruskin1819–1900Sesame and Lilies (1864-1869)
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Work without Hope (1825), ll. 13-14