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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. -- Margaret Fuller
The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements. -- Orison Swett Marden
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations. -- John Wooden
Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate. -- Richard Clarke Cabot
Piano is like drudgery. -- Warren Zevon
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. -- Richard Wagner
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. -- Walter Mosley
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. -- Carmen Agra Deedy
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. -- Orison Swett Marden
Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. -- Peter Benchley
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office. -- Ursula Burns
Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration. -- Corita Kent
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. -- Orison Swett Marden
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work. -- Tanith Lee
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. -- Simon Raven
The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor. -- Mike Rowe
For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas. -- Ted Allen
I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it. -- Dave Gibbons
If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers! -- Don Bluth
To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something. -- Ted Allen
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. -- Charles Babbage
Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation. -- Srikumar Rao
There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those areas, people would probably be relieved not to have to write those kinds of things because they are mundane and drudgery. -- Philip M. Parker
I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery. -- Sarah McLachlan
Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy. -- Bryan Burrough
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery. -- Matthew McConaughey
I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!! -- Brett Weston
There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death. -- Dave Eggers
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. -- Colleen Barrett
The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley. -- Oswald Chambers
Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands. -- John Kasich
I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit. -- Richard Branson
Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work coupled with vision is destiny. -- Thomas S. Monson
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. -- Ravi Zacharias
Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured. -- Luci Swindoll
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery. -- Margaret Deland
Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God. -- Kevin DeYoung
The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine. -- Ross Parsley
School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts. -- Ivan Pavlov
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. -- Mahatma Gandhi
of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence. -- David Hume
Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world. -- James Patterson
My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery. -- William Dobell
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine. -- George Herbert
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. -- Max Ehrmann
To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition -- Henry Ford
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. -- Edwin Markham
A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over. -- Carolyn Crane
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan! -- Charles Lamb
Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live -- Muriel Rukeyser
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. -- Herbert Marcuse
Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone. -- Peter Bayne
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life. -- Samuel Smiles
Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God. -- Oswald Chambers
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction. -- George Bernard Shaw
Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory. -- Jim Dunnigan
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. -- Mortimer Adler
Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy. -- Virginia Woolf
This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks. -- Henri Poincare
It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you don't feel a sense of your own growth. -- Peter Wolf
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. -- Thomas Jefferson
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And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. -- Max Ehrmann
If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up. -- Robert Bly
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness. -- Orison Swett Marden
A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting -- Russell H. Ewing
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality. -- Alan Watts
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd. -- Zoltan Istvan
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You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing. -- Garry Winogrand

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