Workmen Quotes - Page 6

• The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Opportunity, Helping Others, People

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• out of great Russia came three
  dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
  for: Bread, Peace, Land.

  Carl Sandburg

  Gun, Russia, Land

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Education, People, Acquisition

  William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1852). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.206

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• God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Persons, Despised

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• Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

  George Washington

  Country, Evil, Alcohol

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Would Be, Tools

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.922, Library of America

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• Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. ... “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,” ergo, shipwreck, losses, &c., work together for the good of them that love God: hence I infer, that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses, or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Country, Disappointment, Loss

  "Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford".

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• Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Men, Atheism

  1862 Fathers and Sons (translated by Rosemary Edmonds), ch.9.

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• Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week at the most, to recover all fatigue and recommence with an undiminished store of energy.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Energy, Employment, Each Day

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.197

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• God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

  Charles Wesley

  Death, Dying, Carrie

  Thomas JACKSON (Wesleyan Minister.), Charles Wesley (1848). “Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Wesley ... Being an abridgement of his Life in two volumes, octavo”, p.469

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• The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Years, Class, People

  "What is to be done?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 262, 1899.

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• Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

  Plato

  Errors, Matter, Poet

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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