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Category: Work and Laziness

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1. "Nature repairs her ravages, - repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

2. "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Mark Twain

3. "A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

4. "The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."

George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

5. "Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do."

Oscar Wilde

6. "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: God and Religion

7. "My work is my only relationship to everything."

Federico Fellini

8. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Mahatma Gandhi

9. "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

William Faulkner

10. "I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing."

Ronald Reagan

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

11. "Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

12. "We work to become, not to acquire."

Elbert Green Hubbard

13. "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary person."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Science and Technology

14. "A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Society and Solitude"

15. "The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes