“Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.”— John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)Share
“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”— John RuskinShare
“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”— Eleanor RooseveltShare
“The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.”— Richard FeynmanShare
“We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.”— Theodore RooseveltShare
“I still believe that when people really make the effort to understand each other, the possibilities are limitless.”— Christopher ReeveShare
“Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making; or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.”— William MorrisShare
“Necessitous men are not free men. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”— Franklin D. RooseveltShare