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Category: Work and Laziness

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1. "Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life."

Confucius

2. "Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."

Anon.

3. "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

Stephen Leacock

4. "It is not work that kills, but worry."

English proverb

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

5. "Diligence is the mother of success."

English proverb

6. "An idle brain is the devil's workshop."

English proverb

7. "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Question and Problem

8. "God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails."

St. Augustine of Hippo

9. "Folks who never do any more than they are paid for will never get paid for any more than they do."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Richness and Money

10. "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

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

Mark Twain

12. "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

13. "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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: God and Religion

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

Federico Fellini

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

William Faulkner

19. "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

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

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

22. "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

23. "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"

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

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

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