Quote

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

Lord Chesterfield

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lord Chesterfield
Society
Work
Works
Willing

More quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Image
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
You must be respectable, if you will be respected.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.
Lord Chesterfield