Proverbs and Quotes about Job / Skill

A bad carpenter quarrels with his tools.

A bad workman blames his tools.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain

A jack of all trades is master of none.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

All days are short to Industry and long to Idleness.

Easier said than done.

Elbow grease is the best polish.

He has two stomachs to eat and none to work.

If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well

It is better to cultivate a Land with two Bulls, rather working under Boss

It's a poor job that can't carry one boss.

It's all in a days work.

Jack of all trades, master of none

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth

Least talk most work.

Many hands make light work

No life can be dreary when work is a delight.

Only fools and horses work

Poverty is a stranger to industry. At the work man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Rest breeds rust. Fall behind in practice and your skills will be gone.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors

The devil find work for idle hands to do

The devil finds work for idle hands.

The harder you work, the luckier you are.

The hardest work is to do nothing.

The world is full of willing people: some willing to work and some willing to let them

Tis better to get things for free, than to work up a sweat

To scare a bird is not the way to catch it.

Work as if everything depends on me, but pray as if everything depends on God.

Work expands so as to fill the time available