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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
Work without love is slavery.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
The Conquest of Happiness
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
The Republic
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.