Quotes about Work

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To all you hardworkers:

I found these at http://home.att.net/~quotations/

The doer alone learneth. --Friedrich Nietzsche

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. --Thomas Arnold Bennett

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be. --Napolean Hill

Lose this day loitering, 'Twill be the same story Tomorrow -- and the next more dilatory. Then indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting overdays! Are you ernest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or dream you can - begin it! Courage has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage, and the mind grows heated. Begin it, and the work will be completed. --Goethe

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all cost of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. --Thomas Arnold Bennett

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. --Chinese Proverb

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. --Carl Sandburg

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. --Greek Proverb

I lost my job. Actually, I know where it is. Only... when I go back there? They got some -new- guy doin' it. --Bob "Bobcat" Goldthwait

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. --Bette Davis

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." --Robert Frost

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. --Albert Einstein

It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life [that] those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people. --Brutus Hamilton

-- heather (h.m.metheny@att.net), March 05, 2002

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Thank you, lots of great quotes there. Should keep Randal busy with his pen for a little while!

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), March 05, 2002.

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