Quotes About Thankless Jobs

#1. Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#2. You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#3. I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

Al Capone

#4. This is our life now: slaving away in thankless, monotonous jobs and spending half our salaries on fattening food.

Katrina Ramos Atienza

#5. I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

Bill Cosby

#6. I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.

Sara Coleridge

#7. One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

Steven Pinker

#8. Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

Joseph Epstein

#9. She was sleeping on the bed like a novel that is yet to be read and he sat on the floor, reading her, moving his fingers through her hair and staring at her face like she was magic that none ever understood.

Akshay Vasu

#10. You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.

Katie Nolan

#11. Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

Matt Groening

#12. I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around.

John McEnroe

#13. People who turn pages with licked fingers are as bad as those who wipe their noses on the able linen

Alan Bradley

#14. It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

Colin Baker

#15. Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

Sara Gruen

#16. I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and a solitary place glad.

John Buchan

#17. But in the days that followed I realized he was only what he seemed: a giant baby with a heart too big for his body.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez