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“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ”
“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.”
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”
“A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.”
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? ”
“Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.”
“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.”
“When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.”
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
“People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.”
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.”
“Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.”
“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit .”
“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.”
“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”
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