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When nothing seems to
help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away
at a rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a
crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it
will split in two, and I know it was not
that blow that
did it--but all that had gone before.
Jacob
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Luck
means the hardships and privations which you
have not
hesitated to endure;
the long nights you have devoted to
work.
Luck means the appointments you have
never failed
to keep; the trains you have
never failed to catch.
Max
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Bysshe Shelley
There is
no real wealth but the labor of people. Were the mountains
of gold and silver, the world would not be one grain of
corn the richer;
no one comfort would be added to the
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I studied the lives of great men and women,
and I found that the people
who got to the top
were those who did the jobs they had in hand,
with
everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard
work.
Harry S. Truman |
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So
much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves;
and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or
doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of
all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are
those who have not found something they want to do. True
happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed
by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from
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Ruskin
In order
that people may be happy in their work, these three
things
are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not
do too much of it;
and they must have a sense of success
in it--not a doubtful sense,
such as needs some testimony
of other people for its confirmation,
but a sure sense,
or rather knowledge, that so much work has been
done well,
and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think
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I long to accomplish a great and
noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish humble
tasks as though they were great and noble.
The world is
moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest
worker.
Helen Keller |
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You cannot
build a better world without improving the individuals.
To that end
each of us must work for his or her own improvement,
and at the same time
show a general responsibility for
all humanity, our particular duty being to aid
those to
whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie |
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Good for the body is the work of the body,
good for the soul
is the work of the soul, and good for
either is the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau |
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I
never did anything worth doing by accident,
nor did any
of my inventions come by accident;
they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison |
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Khalil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if you
cannot work with love but only with distaste,
it is
better that you should leave your work and sit at the
gate of the temple
and take alms of those who work with
joy. For if you bake bread with indifference,
you bake a
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Happiness, I have
discovered, is nearly always a rebound
from hard work. It
is one of the follies of men to imagine that
they can
enjoy mere thought, or emotion, or sentiment!
As well try
to eat beauty! For happiness must be tricked!
She loves
to see people at work. She loves sweat, weariness,
self-sacrifice. She will not be found in palaces but lurking in
cornfields
and factories and hovering over littered desks: she crowns
the unconscious head of the busy child. If you
look up suddenly
from hard work, you will see her,--but
if you look too long
she fades sorrowfully away.
David
Grayson |
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The beauty of work depends upon the way we
meet it, whether we
arm ourselves each morning to attack
it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes--or
whether we open our eyes with
the sunrise to welcome it
as an approaching friend who will keep
us delightful
company and who will make us feel at evening
that the day
was well worth its fatigue. |
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Starting
out to make money is the greatest mistake in life.
Do
what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are
good enough at it, the money will come.
Greer Garson |
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Labor disgraces no person; unfortunately,
you occasionally find people who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant |
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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half
effort does not produce half results,
it produces no
results. Work, continuous work and hard work,
is the only
way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt |
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Striving
for success without hard work is like trying to harvest
where you haven't planted.
David Bly |
Continuity of
purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of
happiness in the long run, and for most people this comes
chiefly through their work.
Bertrand Russell |
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one important thing I have learned over the years is the
difference
between taking one's work seriously, and
taking one's self seriously.
The first is imperative, and
the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn |
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I don't like
work, but I like what is in work--the chance
to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself,
not for others--what no other person can ever know.
Joseph Conrad
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The
return from your work must be the satisfaction that work brings you
and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven,
or
as near heaven as you can get. Without this--with work
which you
despise, which bores you, and which the world
does not need--this life
is hell.
William
du Bois |
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What a
person accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he or she
approaches their tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a
challenge to our ability
and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm,
miracles can happen. When we
do our work with a dynamic,
conquering spirit, we get things done.
Arland
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Work and play can be the same. When you are following
your energy
and doing what you want to do all the time, the distinction
between work and play dissolves. Work is no longer what you have to
do,
and play what you want to do. When you are doing what you love,
you may work harder and produce more than ever before, because you are
having fun.
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