Philosophy

AIDAS PERSONAL GmbH sings in praise of work

The keyword "work" lets nobody untouched. People are thinking about work for millennia. AIDAS PERSONAL GmbH collected a few quotations of famous people concerning work and hereby sings in praise of work:

• “Working is hard and most often a joyless and exhausting grind; not working, however, is hell.”
  (Thomas Mann)
• “Labour is often the source of delight.”
  (Voltaire)
• “Persistent work triumphs.”
  (Virgil)
• “Labour is often the only respite from the burden of being.”
  (Peter Rosegger)
• “Nought but labour can lift you up out of a weary nothingness; it gives reason to your days even when your life has none.”
  (Oskar Blumenthal)
• “Boredom is a sickness. Work is its remedy. Pleasure is merely a palliative.”
  (Gaston Herzog von Lévis)
• “Work is the only thing that doesn’t tire me out.”
  (Paul Reynaud)
• “Nothing is better suited to promote reconciliation among conflicting parties than cooperative work on cooperative tasks.”
  (Otto von Bismarck)
• “The work that tires us out is not the work we do but the work we leave undone.”
  (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
• “Work gives us more than wages; it gives us life.”
  (Henry Ford I)
• “Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
  (Benjamin Franklin)
• “Little work is a burden, much work is a joy.”
  (Victor Hugo)
• “The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
  (John Ruskin)
• “Luck only helps sometimes, work always.”
  (Brahman proverb)
• “Work keeps away three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.”
  (Voltaire)
• “The sweat of toil on your hands is more honourable than a golden ring on your finger.”
  (Old proverb)
• “Labour makes life sweet and adds to it no weight. The only one who needs to worry is he who work doth hate.”
  (G. W. Burmann)
• “Work gladly done is half-finished before it is begun.”
  (French proverb)
• “Work is both a battle and an action; a struggle with yourself and your environment; a wrestle against idleness and pleasure-seeking in favour of performance.”
  (R. N. Coudenhove-Kalergi)
• “Idleness is man’s great foe and makes him weak and slack; ‘tis work that is the best of friends and provides new strength without lack.”
  (Peter von Bohlen)
• “The only way to make yourself at home in this world is through working; whoever does not work remains forever homeless.”
  (Auerbach)
• “Work has a bitter root but bears sweet fruit.”
  (Proverb)
• “Without the workers, their guilds and their feats, the nobleman would be reduced to begging for his bread in the streets.”
  (Old adage)

Only if you haven't wrinkled your nose while reading these quotations, you have come to the right place. AIDAS PERSONAL GmbH is proud to bring together dedicated employees und faire employers.