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Work

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

41.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

42.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

44.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace