This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power as it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
"The least of the work of learning is done in the classrooms." - Thomas Merton
"Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it." - C. Wright Mills, fully Charles Wright Mills
"Often our work seems insignificant and unimportant when we compare ourselves with the immensity of time and the universe, but God gave us our moment on earth to be used in the best possible way." - J. V. Moldenhawer
"Life is a conscious space between two eternities. It is a canyon separating never from forever. It is the realm where feelings are born in both sprit and flesh. Life only gives meaning to the time a man lives. Only the living have meaning... The projection of man in his work is the meaning of life. Unless a man creates something outside himself, the meaning of his life will vanish at the instant of his death." - Domingo Moles
"Being is something we hold dear, and being consists in movement and action. Wherefore each man in some sort exists in his work." - Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you." - John Morley, 1st Viscount Morely of Blackburn, Lord Morley
"To live well we must have a faith fit to live by, a self fit to live with, and a work fit to live for." - Joseph Fort Newton
"Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man." - Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Live life as a work of art." - Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Everyone reads out of a work as much as he is capable of reading into it. Only in the material realm is "a receiver not a giver." Spiritually, you can't take unless you give. To apprehend God's or a man's creation, you must put in your share and become a partner in a creative work." - Samuel Niger, aka Shmuel Niger, pseudonymn of Samuel Charney
"The surest eventuality in life is death... You always have to do your best in whatever work comes your way. Only then can you express your gratitude for having been endowed with life. Only then can you rest assured of reaching paradise after death." - Ayano Otani
"Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal... Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth." -
"Work expands to fill the time available for its completion." - C. Northcote Parkinson, fully Cyril Northcote Parkinson
"Great strides in human progress are being made by men who delve deeply into the imagination, then through the medium of hard work, bring fancy into reality." - Robert K. Patterson
"Unhappy he who does his work adjourn, and to to-morrow would the search delay: his lazy morrow ill be like to-day." - Persius, fully Aulus Persius Flaccus NULL
"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction." - Pablo Picasso, fully Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
"A man is not a slave in being compelled to work against his will, but in being compelled to work without hope and without reward." - W. Winwood Reade, fully William Winwood Reade
"Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis." - Theodor Reik
"Work alone does not suffice - the effort must be intelligent." - Charles B. Rogers
"Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in Speech." - Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
"Hold childhood in reverence and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Give nature time to work before you take over her tasks, lest you interfere with her method." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"There can be no patriotism without liberty, no liberty without virtue, no virtue without citizens; create citizens, and you have everything you need; without them, you will have nothing but debased slaves, from the rulers of the State downwards. To form citizens is not the work of a day; and in order to have men it is necessary to educate them when they are children." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Women are too much inclined to follow in the footsteps of men, to try to think as men think, to try to solve the general problems of life as men solve them.. The women is not needed to do man’s work. she is not needed to think man’s thoughts... Her mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities." - Margaret Sanger, fully Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee
"The three criteria of a work of art: harmony, intensity, continuity." - Arthur Schnitzler
"Hard work is the best investment a man can make." - Charles Michael Schwab
"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life." - Charles Michael Schwab
"No ray of sunshine is ever lost, but the green which it wakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith." - Albert Schweitzer
"Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force." - Albert Schweitzer
"All work is holy." - Noah benShea
"There is only work and love in life, thought Jacob. If we are fortunate, we love our work. If we are wise, we are willing to work at love." - Noah benShea
"It takes 6 muscles to smile; 56 to frown. Don't work too hard!" - Norm Shealy, fully Dr. C. Norman Shealy
"The greatest touchstone of any work is time." - Simonides, aka Simonedes of Ceos NULL
"Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him, but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture." - Samuel Smiles
"My young men never work. Men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams." - Chief Smohalla
"The pyramidal effect is essential to all the arts - the effect of starting from the level, rising to the supreme height, and sinking back to the original level again. This in truth is the meaning of key in music; in art, as in life, the secret of happiness is first of all to get as far away from home as you can, and then get back to your home: every work of art is a sort of Prodigal Son, that learns to appreciate the fixed point in space as in ethics, by straying from it." - Nahum Sokolow
"The ultimate aim of Government is not to rule or restrain by fear, not to exact obedience, but on the contrary, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself and others. The object of government is not to hang men from rational beings into puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled... The true aim of Government is liberty." -
"Relationships work because of a balance between intimacy and independence." - Robert Sternberg, fully Robert Jeffrey Sternberg
"You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you." - Tiorio NULL
"I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence." - Alexis de Tocqueville, fully Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
"What is the best time to do each thing? Who are the most important people to work with? What is the most important thing to do at all times?... There is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life." -
"Usually people interested in spiritual development think in terms of the importance of mind, that mysterious, high and deep thing that we have decided to learn about. But strangely enough, the profound and the transcendental are to be found in the factory. It may not fill you with bliss to look at it, it may not sound as good as the spiritual experiences that we have read about, but somehow reality is to be found there in the way in which we relate with everyday problems. If we relate to them in a simple, earthy way, we will work in a more balanced manner, and things will be dealt with properly." - Chögyam Trungpa, fully Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
"If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles with the just fear of God and love of our fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity." - Daniel Webster
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, and the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, and the tree-toad is a chef-d’oeuvre for the highest, and the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, and the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, and the cow crunching with depress’d head surpasses any statue, and a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels." - Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman