“Better too much spade work than too little! This work saves blood.”
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
Lieber zuviel als zu wenig Spatengebrauch! Diese Arbeit spart Blut.
Source: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 28.
“Honest work is much better than a mansion.”
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 82
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Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
Context: Ireland has a very different attitude to success than a lot of places, certainly than over here in the United States. In the United States, you look at the guy that lives in the mansion on the hill, and you think, you know, one day, if I work really hard, I could live in that mansion. In Ireland, people look up at the guy in the mansion on the hill and go, one day, I'm going to get that bastard. It's a different mind-set.
“It is better to work out than rust out.”
Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya (1860–1962) Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore
Even at the age of 102 he said this as quoted in [Our Leaders, http://books.google.com/books?id=YwTh-vjSFXUC&pg=PA51, 1989, Children's Book Trust, 978-81-7011-701-8, 63]
W.B. Yeats book The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Choice http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1602/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
Joe Trohman (1984) American musician
My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue (2004), Ultimate Guitar Interview (2008)
“Canada is a country that works better in practice than in theory.”
Stéphane Dion (1955) Canadian politician
As quoted in "One nation or many?" https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20170522044424/http://www.economist.com/node/8173164 (16 November 2006), The Economist
Paul Krugman (1953) American economist
The New York Times Columns, The Populism Perplex (November 25, 2016)
“The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.”
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Más vale el buen ocio que el negocio.
Maxim 247
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
“Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 103
“An honest God is the noblest work of man.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
This is derived from Alexander Pope's "An honest man's the noblest work of God." Motto of the essay "The Gods" (1876) as published in The Gods and Other Lectures (1879).