Work

(129 votes)   There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(127 votes)   Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right

Walt Disney

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(127 votes)   If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Sir Isaac Newton
1642-1727, British Scientist, Mathematician

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(122 votes)   There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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(119 votes)   What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(113 votes)   Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Lido Anthony Lee Lacocca

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(112 votes)   Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

T. Boone Pickens
American Businessman, Chairman of Mesa Petroleum

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(109 votes)   I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

Mario Cuomo

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(108 votes)   We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

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(104 votes)   If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

James A. Garfield
1831-1881, Twentieth President of the USA

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(101 votes)   All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

Calvin Coolidge

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(100 votes)   The best work never was and never will be done for money.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(100 votes)   When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(98 votes)   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

St. John Chrysosatom
345-407, Patriarch of Constantinople

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(98 votes)   The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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