Work

(29 votes)   Inspiration without perspiration is usually sterile.

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(29 votes)   Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.

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(29 votes)   My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Tom Hanks
1956-, American Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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(28 votes)   I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child; they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

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(28 votes)   I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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(28 votes)   Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Nisaragada Ha Maharaj

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(27 votes)   Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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(27 votes)   I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Coleman Cox

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(27 votes)   If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(27 votes)   There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(26 votes)   For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art.

Henry Longfellow

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(26 votes)   I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Dobie Gillis

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(26 votes)   I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Jodie Foster
1962-, American Actress, Director, Producer

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(26 votes)   If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Elizabeth Perle Mckenna

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(26 votes)   The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Sy Leon

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