Drudgery Quotes
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Drudgery Quotes & Sayings
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My best work is always done ... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.
— William Dobell
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.
— Sweety Shinde
Of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.
— David Hume
A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision and a task are the hope of the world.
— Inscription On A Church Wall In Sussex England C. 1730
The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.
— Ross Parsley
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
— Colleen Barrett
Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.
— Billy Graham
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Like other intellectuals, he welcomed the mindless drudgery as a refreshing change of pace.
— Philip Zaleski
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.
— George Bernard Shaw
Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.
— Geraldine Brooks
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
— Carmen Agra Deedy
A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.
— Carolyn Crane
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
— Margaret Fuller
His experience of life in an office had made him determine never to have anything more to do with one ...
— W. Somerset Maugham
A bad job is drudgery; a good job is slavery.
— Marty Rubin
I foresee, that, if my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply them would become a drudgery.
— Henry David Thoreau
I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.
— James Patterson
After a few hours of not seeing any sign of them, he relaxed into the drudgery of walking, walking and then more walking.
— James Dashner
A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.
— Leonard Ravenhill
This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.
— Richard Branson
The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble.
— Julie Klassen
Kahneman found that when counting moments of joy and moments of drudgery, bringing up a child turns out to be a rather unpleasant affair.
— Yuval Noah Harari
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.
— Henri Poincare
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.
— Edwin Markham
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
— Mortimer Adler
Piano is like drudgery.
— Warren Zevon
School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.
— Ivan Pavlov
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
— Samuel Smiles
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.
— Ravi Zacharias
Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
— Peter Benchley
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
— Richard Wagner
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
— Orison Swett Marden
Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.
— Oswald Chambers
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.
— George Herbert
Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured.
— Luci Swindoll
Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.
— Kevin DeYoung
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
— Margaret Deland
Women in drudgery knewThey must be one of four:
Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
There are composite lives
that women always live — Muriel Rukeyser
In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade,
— Margery Allingham
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
— Matthew McConaughey
