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1. "Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."

Louisa May Alcott

2. "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Truth and Falsity

3. "There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."

Mary Wilson Little

4. "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Andrew Carnegie

Quotations about: Success and Fame

5. "Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want."

Robert Bringle

Quotations about: Envy

6. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Talent and Genius

7. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Andy Warhol, "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

8. "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Jim Rohn

Quotations about: Success and Fame

9. "One generation plants trees, another gets the shade."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Time and Passing

10. "Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

Chinese proverb

11. "If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep."

Jewish proverb

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

12. "God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk."

Arabic proverb

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

13. "Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year."

Spanish proverb

Quotations about: Time and Passing

14. "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

Saadi

Quotations about: Question and Problem

15. "If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment."

Milton Friedman

Quotations about: Richness and Money

16. "The only thing you get in life without effort is dandruff."

Navjot Singh Sidhu

17. "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas Alva Edison

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

18. "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."

Anatol France, "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard"

19. "Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Quotations about: Art and Culture

20. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas Alva Edison

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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21. "Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary of fools."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Optimism and Hope

22. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

English proverb

23. "Anything in life worth having is worth working for!"

Andrew Carnegie

24. "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

Robert Lee Frost

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

25. "A retired husband is a wife's full time job."

Ella Harris

Quotations about: Marriage

26. "Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work."

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, "Family and Politics"

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Love

27. "Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide."

George Savile

Quotations about: Various

28. "Some people hate waking up and getting out of bed. I enjoy it. I do it three or four times a day."

Anon.

29. "Management is nothing more than motivating other people."

Lee Iacocca

Quotations about: Various

30. "I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything."

John D. Rockefeller

31. "The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."

Philip Roth

Quotations about: Good and Evil

32. "Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills."

Soichiro Honda

Quotations about: Happiness

33. "In doing nothing men learn to do evil."

Cato the Elder

Quotations about: Good and Evil

34. "By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."

Robert Lee Frost

35. "Ideas are funny things - they don't work unless you do."

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Quotations about: Various

36. "Happiness consists of three things: someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience."

Anon.

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Sin and Conscience

37. "There are three ways to obtain wealth: inheritance, luck, and hard work. None is guaranteed, but you have no influence over the first two."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money

38. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

John Wooden

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

39. "God give me work, till my life shall end.
And life, till my work is done."

Winifred Holtby`s epitaph

Quotations about: Inscriptions etc. -:- Life and Death

40. "All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

Mark Kennedy

Quotations about: Science and Technology

41. "Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success."

David O. McKay

Quotations about: Success and Fame

42. "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

Henry J. Kaiser

Quotations about: Various -:- Question and Problem

43. "All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

44. "Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do."

R. G. Collingwood, "Speculum Mentis"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

45. "The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary."

Vince Lombardi

Quotations about: Success and Fame

46. "Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age."

George Burns

Quotations about: Youth and Age

47. "To create a little flower is the labor of ages."

William Blake

Quotations about: Nature and Animals -:- Time and Passing

48. "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Louis Leo Holtz

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

49. "Help yourself and God will help you."

proverb

50. "Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life."

African proverb

Quotations about: Education

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