Work Quotes

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

I know that many will call this useless work. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy-on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation...it must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

The work, my friend, is peace. More than an end of this war-an end to the beginnings of all wars.

We believe that people ought to work out for themselves, and through their own study, the determination of their best interest rather than accept such so-called information as may be handed out to them by certain types of self-constituted leaders who decide what is best for them.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it-and sacrifice for it.