Work

(69 votes)   My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(69 votes)   We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(67 votes)   No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova
1881-1931, Russian Ballerina

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(66 votes)   A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(66 votes)   To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Samuel Butler

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(65 votes)   Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(65 votes)   The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

William Gladstone

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(63 votes)   All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

John Hay

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(63 votes)   Work is victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(61 votes)   Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(61 votes)   I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do John 17:4

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(61 votes)   I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome Klapka Jerome

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(61 votes)   I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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

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(61 votes)   One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist

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(61 votes)   Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card

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