Productivity quotes — Page 2

The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part VI, Section II discussion of systems that make virtue consist in benevolence; historical spelling “œconomy” is retained.

The Wealth of Nations; Smith states the consumer-oriented purpose of production while discussing economic policy.

The Wealth of Nations, Book II, Chapter II; Project Gutenberg #3300. Smith is explaining money as part of circulating capital rather than denying its practical usefulness.

The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter VIII; Project Gutenberg #3300. The historical spelling “recompence” is retained and the sentence belongs to a larger theoretical argument.

The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter V; Smith discusses labour as the original price and measure behind exchange.

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie; Carnegie describes his decision to concentrate his business attention on iron and steel.

An Autobiography, Chapter VII, Project Gutenberg #5978. Trollope describes his self-imposed quota and record-keeping system before saying that a genuinely daily small task can beat spasmodic heroic labour. It is autobiographical reflection on his own working method, not a universal productivity or health prescription.

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, opening discussion of the daily allotment of time. The represented public-domain Project Gutenberg text is #2274; the line is conduct-of-life rhetoric, not a literal economic equivalence.

Mental Efficiency. Bennett explicitly defines the scope of his argument as mental efficiency serving self-development; this is period conduct-of-life writing rather than modern cognitive-science evidence.

The Human Machine, concluding emphasis on present practice over distant aspiration. The idiom “needs a lot of beating” means the ambition is difficult to surpass, not that it requires violence.

Advice to a Young Tradesman, 21 July 1748; concluding advice on industry and frugality.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part II, thirteen-virtue table: Resolution. Project Gutenberg #148 (Charles W. Eliot / Harvard Classics, 1909) preserves the represented wording; the reviewed direct locator is Wikisource Section Thirty Six.

Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. This is historical emigration advice written for Europeans and is not a claim about present-day U.S. labor or immigration conditions.

Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, before March 1784; Founders Online. The statement is eighteenth-century description and advocacy, not modern financial, employment or immigration guidance.

Poor Richard’s Almanack.

Poor Richard’s Almanack; a compact maxim about cumulative effort.

Poor Richard’s Almanack.

Poor Richard’s Almanack; the maxim appears in Franklin’s collected Poor Richard material.

Poor Richard’s Almanack.

Poor Richard’s Almanack.

Poor Richard’s Almanack; the maxim connects disciplined use of working time with the ability to gain leisure.

Poor Richard’s Almanack.

Poor Richard’s Almanack; the maxim connects the value of life directly with the use of time.

The Way to Wealth, where Father Abraham repeats maxims associated with Poor Richard.

The Way to Wealth; a Poor Richard maxim on delay and useful employment of time.

The Way to Wealth, Franklin’s compilation of Poor Richard maxims.

The Way to Wealth, section III, frugality discussion, Project Gutenberg #43855. Father Abraham repeats the Poor Richard maxim “Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries” while warning auction-goers that an apparent bargain can become dear when the purchase is unnecessary. The persona and eighteenth-century moral-financial context remain explicit; this is not individualized financial advice.

Character Building, “Some Great Little Things,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Near the close of the address, Washington urges regular times for study, recreation, sleep, reading and reflection, treating regularity as part of everyday self-discipline.

Character Building, “Some Great Little Things,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington tells students to make order and neatness habitual in crowded rooms, immediately before his advice to work and close doors quietly.

Character Building, “What Is To Be Our Future?”, Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington asks whether Tuskegee will remain worthy of public confidence and answers by requiring each student and worker to put conscience and full effort into every kind of work.

Character Building, “What Is To Be Our Future?”, Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington offers the sentence as a standard students should be able to affirm about their own effort.

Character Building, “The Virtue of Simplicity,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington uses mortar-mixing as a concrete example of progressive workmanship.

Up from Slavery, Chapter XVI, “Europe,” Project Gutenberg #2376. While discussing Henry O. Tanner and recognition for excellent work, Washington restates his Tuskegee principle that advancement depends on doing useful work so thoroughly that its value becomes difficult to ignore.

Working With the Hands, Chapter I, opening sentence; Project Gutenberg #64504. This deliberately short excerpt is presented with its educational context.

David Copperfield; Mr. Micawber’s advice.

Ecclesiastes 4:9, King James Version.

Ecclesiastes 9:10, King James Version.

Aurora Leigh, Book III, printed page 95 / Wikisource scan leaf 104, scan-backed Chapman and Hall third edition (London, 1857), cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #56621. Aurora describes three years of literary work in Kensington and says, “Get work, get work; Be sure ’tis better than what you work to get.” The passage remains first-person verse-novel narration about vocation and work rather than a universal instruction to overwork or neglect health and rest.

Discourses of Epictetus, Book II, Chapter XVIII, “How we should struggle against appearances,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. This short catalog record is an excerpt of Long’s longer clause “Generally then if you would make any thing a habit, do it”; this collection lightly normalizes “any thing” to “anything.”

Discourses of Epictetus, Book II, Chapter XVIII, “How we should struggle against appearances,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. Epictetus explains that habits and faculties are maintained by corresponding actions: “If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.”

Discourses of Epictetus, Book II, Chapter XVIII, “How we should struggle against appearances,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. This collection lightly normalizes Long’s “any thing” to “anything”; this longer record contains the shorter retained habit excerpt represented by a separate legacy quote URL.

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, saying XX, Hastings Crossley translation.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. The exercise involves repeatedly sketching faces connected with places for the novel’s secret mission.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. The narration refers to Marco’s long-running memory game, which later becomes useful inside the novel’s fictional secret mission.

The Life of Reason; the line appears in Santayana’s analysis of ideas, activity, and sustained direction.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. Keller is describing her future-facing desire for useful activity as college ends.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. Keller contrasts longing for a great task with the daily duty of doing humble tasks well.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The sentence follows Keller’s discussion of Carlyle’s historical “gospel of work.”

Life Without Principle, The Atlantic Monthly, 1863; represented Wikisource text. The line follows Thoreau’s claim that a community cannot buy a wise person away from work that genuinely occupies him.

Walden, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.”

The Mastery of Destiny, opening of “The Power of Purpose”; Wikisource 1909 text. The sentence is Allen’s own framing, not an attributed example.

The Mastery of Destiny, “Training of the Will,” rule four; Wikisource 1909 text. It is practical self-discipline advice in Allen’s period framework.

Three Men in a Boat, Chapter XV; this follows the narrator’s claim that work fascinates him because he can look at it for hours.

Lectures on Art, Lecture III, Project Gutenberg #19164. “Holiness” and the surrounding six-days/seventh-day contrast are explicitly religious.

Lectures on Art, Lecture III, Project Gutenberg #19164. The sentence is Ruskin’s Victorian moral rhetoric and is not treated as a modern workplace rule.

Lectures on Art, Lecture III, Project Gutenberg #19164. Ruskin makes a normative Victorian claim about workmanship and morality; this collection does not universalize it beyond that context.

The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture on Work; Project Gutenberg #26716. The passage belongs to Ruskin’s Victorian moral and religious argument about labor and professional motives, not to a modern compensation model.

The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture on Work; Project Gutenberg #26716. The sentence occurs in a discussion of how hard work should be organized and chosen; its period labor assumptions remain contextualized.

Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne, Letter XIII, “The Proper Offices of the Bishop and Duke; or, Overseer and Leader,” paragraph 69, printed page 46 in Project Gutenberg #31196. Ruskin says “That is my right work” while describing his own preference for drawing hawthorn, primrose, birds and flowers instead of being forced by public distress into political writing; this is local autobiographical vocation context, not a universal career prescription.

Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne, Letter V, “The Corruption of Modern Pleasure—(Covent Garden Pantomime.),” paragraph 21, printed page 16 in Project Gutenberg #31196’s represented Library Edition text. “Labor without joy is base” occurs in Ruskin’s three-part discussion of labor, sorrow and joy and remains Victorian Christian-moral / social argument rather than a modern occupational-health or psychological rule.

Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne, Letter XIX, “Broken Reeds,” paragraph 117, printed page 77 in Project Gutenberg #31196. Ruskin distinguishes the financial cost of repeated charitable appeals from “the crippling of my temper, and waste of my time,” then explains his own limits and distress. The retained fragment remains autobiographical Victorian social-reform context rather than general advice against helping others or modern mental-health guidance.

Unto This Last, fourth essay; Project Gutenberg #36541. The sentence continues by defining production through serviceable consumption; tagging it to productivity records that critique of raw output rather than equating Ruskin with modern productivity science.

The Prophet, “On Work.”

Colossians 3:23 in the King James Version; the instruction emphasizes wholehearted work and a higher standard of accountability.

Proverbs 21:5 in the King James Version; the first clause is quoted here.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 12.

Meditations 6.6; wording varies by translation.

Meditations, Book XII, section 6, George Long translation.

Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers; the sentence appears in advice about practical education, precision, and the development of the whole person.

The Innocents Abroad (1869), Chapter XXVIII. In the same closing Rome passage Twain says he has drifted for a hundred manuscript pages without knowing where to commence, turning the abundance of material into a joke about structure and authorship. Verified against the scan-backed 1869 first edition.

Architects of Fate; Project Gutenberg #21622, in Marden’s discussion of definite purpose and concentrated effort.

The Art of Money Getting, section headed “Whatever You Do, Do It With All Your Might.”

The Art of Money Getting; Barnum places health before the business maxims that follow.

The Art of Money Getting, in Barnum’s discussion of thorough work and business effort.

Galatians 6:9 in the King James Version; opening clause of the verse about perseverance.

Proverbs 21:5, King James Version.

Proverbs 22:29, King James Version.

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, maxim 7, in Darius Lyman’s 1856 English rendering; maxim order can vary across editions.

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, maxim 11, in Darius Lyman’s 1856 English rendering; maxim order can vary across editions.

Essay “Circles,” in Essays: First Series; the line closes a passage about energetic action.

Lecture “New England Reformers.”

Essay “Self-Reliance”; Emerson criticizes rigid adherence to past opinions when fresh judgment requires revision.

Essay “El Dorado.”

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.

The Idler, No. 11; this paper is not among the numbers Johnson’s own advertisement excluded from his authorship.

Men of Invention and Industry, Chapter IX, “Charles Bianconi: A Lesson of Self-Help in Ireland”; Project Gutenberg #725. This excerpt is Smiles’s narrative conclusion immediately after an anecdote about saving time.

Thrift, Chapter IV, “Means of Saving,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles is arguing that working people should reject the idea that labour is degrading and use leisure for cultivation; the surrounding passage contains period class judgments that are not adopted as present-day social evidence.

Thrift, Chapter II, “Habits of Thrift,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles says thrift requires neither exceptional courage nor intellect but ordinary common sense, resistance to selfish enjoyment and patient self-denial.

Thrift, Chapter II, “Habits of Thrift,” Project Gutenberg #14418. The sentence completes Smiles’s practical paragraph on forming habits of economy: repeated thrift becomes easier and eventually compensates the self-denial it initially requires.

Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles broadens his defence of labour from material production to art, literature, science and knowledge; the universal wording is his historical moral claim, not an empirical rule that effort alone guarantees greatness.

Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles moves from mutual dependence among workers to the value added by labour and skill; “vulgarest” preserves the period wording for common or ordinary things.

Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. The phrase completes Smiles’s account of practical knowledge passing from one generation to another through teaching and example, preserving art, handicraft, tools and materials.

On the Shortness of Life, Chapter III; part of Seneca’s warning against acting as though every day were guaranteed.

English wording varies by translation.

Speech at Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903.

Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. IV “The New Downing Street”; Project Gutenberg #1140. The sentence occurs inside Carlyle’s controversial political argument about leadership; this collection uses it for work/responsibility while retaining that historical context.

Past and Present, Book III, Chapter XII, “Reward,” printed page 251 in Thomas Carlyle’s Collected Works, Library Edition, Vol. XIII (London: Chapman and Hall), Project Gutenberg #26159. Carlyle says one shall “work while it is called Today” immediately before “For the Night cometh, wherein no man can work,” retaining the biblical allusion and nineteenth-century religious exhortation rather than reframing it as productivity science.

Past and Present, Book III, Chapter XII, “Reward,” printed page 250 in Thomas Carlyle’s Collected Works, Library Edition, Vol. XIII (London: Chapman and Hall), Project Gutenberg #26159. “Work, and therein have well-being” opens Carlyle’s enduring “Gospel” of work inside explicitly Christian Victorian social criticism. This collection preserves that historical moral-religious setting and does not present the sentence as a modern health, wellness or employment guarantee.

Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter IX, “The Everlasting Yea,” printed page 156 / Wikisource scan leaf 188 in The Works of Thomas Carlyle, Centenary Edition, Vol. I (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1896). “Do the Duty which lies nearest thee” follows the doubt/action sentence and is explicitly described as a precept that was of invaluable service to Teufelsdröckh. It remains fictional-philosophical and religious conduct-of-life rhetoric rather than a context-free productivity command.

Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter IX, “The Everlasting Yea,” printed page 156 / Wikisource scan leaf 188 in The Works of Thomas Carlyle, Centenary Edition, Vol. I (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1896). “Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by Action” appears inside Teufelsdröckh’s spiritual conversion and Carlyle’s claim that conviction becomes meaningful through conduct. This collection preserves the fictional-philosophical voice and religious setting rather than presenting the line as uncomplicated Carlyle autobiography or a modern psychological rule.