关于work的英语名言

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劳动节到了，搜集一些与work有关的英语名言与大家分享。

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

无蜜蜂则无蜜甜，不干活则没有钱。

----谚语

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Unknown Source

劳而无获是完全可能的，不劳而获是绝无可能的。

----来源不详

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use.

Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose.

Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun.

Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

Unknown Source

每一天光阴是完美礼品，

时光如何打发尽随我心。

每天早晨，希望随太阳而升，

每天晚上，完活而充满欢欣。

----来源不详

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler (1612-1680) , British poet and satirist.

每人所做的工作，无论是文学、音乐、美术、建筑或其他，无非都是在给自己画像。

----塞缪尔.巴特勒 (1612-1680) ，英国诗人和讽刺作家

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost (1875-1963), American Poet.

每天老老实实地干8小时，你总有一天可能成为老板，那时每天就要干12小时了。

----美国著名诗人罗伯特. 弗罗斯特

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet and dramatist

工作是没有其他事情好干的人们的避难所。

----爱尔兰著名作家王尔德

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th president of the U.S.

普天之下，生活所能给予的最高奖赏便是给你一个机会在值得做的事业上努力工作。

----美国第26届总统西奥多. 罗斯福

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), British novelist.

我不喜欢工作……但我喜欢工作所蕴含的东西……即发现自己的机会。你自身的现实属于你自己，不属于其他人……也是其他任何人不可能了解的.

----约瑟夫. 康拉德,英国小说家

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer

工作和游戏是用来描述同一件事的两个不同的词，随情境而异。

----马克. 吐温，美国著名作家

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

Unknown Source 

干活干得好，人家会拍拍你后背鼓励一下；蚊子不好好干活，都没人拍它。

----来源不详

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

George Sand (1804-1876), French Romantic writer.

工作不是对人的惩罚！工作是犒赏，是人的力量、荣光和欢愉之所在。

----法国著名女作家乔治桑

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) , American industrialist.

人生的目的是工作、体验和幸福。工作中有欢愉。钱所能做的，无非是用我们的劳动成果去交换来别人的劳动成果。若我们没有感受到自己做成了某事，就没有幸福可言。

----福特汽车公司创始人亨利.福特

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford (1863-1947), American industrialist.

思考是最艰难的工作，这或许是从事思考的人甚少的原因。

----福特汽车公司创始人亨利.福特

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) American inventor

没有任何东西能替代艰苦的努力。

----大发明家爱迪生

相关阅读

 含有“劳动”字样的英语名言，http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1557-565423.html，2012年五一写的；

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