"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."

Work, Man, Water

8

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."

Explore more quotes by Thomas Carlyle

"All great peoples are conservative."

Conservative,

"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

Difference, Unconscious

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

Silence, Speech

"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."

Life, Thought, Heart, Deeds

"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

Ego, Egotism, Faults

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

Heart,

"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."

Perspective, Rest

"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."

Man, Men, Nation, Reform

"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

Wisdom, Ignorance

"Thought is the parent of the deed."

Thought, Deed

Exlpore more Work quotes

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Work, Skill, Identity, Expertise, Education

"The world system is employment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Work, World, System, Employment, Control

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

Steven Magee, British Author

Work, Police, Stress, Danger, Health

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Work, Butler, Writer, Mind

"I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Work, Speed, Pressure, Stress

"Do not be weary to make money."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Work, Do, Weary, Money, Life

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Work,

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Truth, Life, Happiness, Regret

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Work, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Work, Self, Identity, Values