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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."--Theodore Roosevelt
"Do the work you love or love the work you do."--Anonymous
"Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man."--Hesiod, Works and Days
"If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent."--Aristotle, Economics
"The easy way out is often just that--the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 177. Order A Guide to Rational Living.
"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence."--William Blake
"To be is to do."--Plato
"To do is to be."--Socrates
"The way to do is be."--Lao Tzu
"To be is to be related."--J. Krishnamurti
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties."--Samuel Johnson
"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence."--Arthur Schopenhauer
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."--Epicurus
"Work is the best method devised for killing time."--William Feather
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."--Kenji Miyazawa
"A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work."--John Lubbock
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."--Arnold Toynbee
"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'"--Jim Fox
"When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home."--Betty Bender
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."--Francis Bacon
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone."--Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Later never exists."--Anonymous
"'I must do something' always solves more problems than 'Something must be done.'"--Anonymous
"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is good work today."--Elbert Hubbard
"Success is about who you are, not what you have. Successful people work to discover their talents, to develop those talents, and then to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves."--Tom Morris
"In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference."--Anonymous
"The best way to get something done is to begin."--Anonymous
"What may be done at any time will be done at no time."--Scottish proverb
"Keep busy; idleness is the strength of bad habits."--Fredrick W. Evans, Shaker member
"What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows."--Alexandra Stoddard
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."--Thomas Henry Huxley
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand."--Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
"Killing time murders opportunities."--Anonymous
"Half measures availed us nothing."--AA Big Book
"All that you do, do with your might, things done by halves are never done right."--Shaker saying
"Love the life you live and you will live the life you love."--Anonymous
"Success is about who you are, not what you have. Successful people work to discover their talents, to develop those talents, and then to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves."--Tom Morris
"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."--Herbert Spencer
"Idleness is the devil's workshop."--Aphorism
"Purpose is what gives life a meaning."--Charles Henry Parkhurst
"Laziness is the source of many evils."--Meander
"Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame."--Hesiod
"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."--Aeschylus, The Persians
"You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard."--Euripides
"Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid."--Euripides, fragment
"Laziness is the mother of all evils."--Sophocles
"The gods help those who help themselves."--Aesop, Fables
"Heaven never helps the man who will not act."--Socrates, fragment
"God always strives together with those who strive."--Aeschylus, fragment
"Practice is everything."--Periander, in Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
"Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing."--Sophocles, Minos
"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear."--Sophocles, Oedipus in Colonus
"Remember, nothing succeeds without toil."--Sophocles, Electra
"Do not put off till tomorrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work; Industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always hand-grips with ruin."--Hesiod, Works and Days
"Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones."--Aristotle, Ethics
"Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another."--Epicetetus, Discources
"Nothing great comes into being all at once."--Epictetus, Discourses
"If you add a little to a little, and do it again, soon that little shall be much."--Hesoid, Works and Days
"Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned."--Plato, Protagoras
"Too much rest becomes a pain."--Homer, The Odyssey
QUOTATIONS KEVIN
"Nothing works like working."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Find the fun and the work will get done."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Do you work to eat or eat to work? Do you work to rest or rest to work? Do you wish work away and so your life? Or, do you enjoy work and so your life? Do you have it backwards? Then change your attitude starting today!"--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"To be needed means you do work for someone."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"To be useful means you do work."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"When work is over life is over."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"When work is play--you have arrived back home."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Work is a gift. Work is a privilege. Work is a challenge. Work is an opportunity."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"It is a sad state of affairs when the world makes both learning and work a pain--when in fact learning and work are the two greatest joys in life. Think not--then watch little children before school and parents have corrupted them."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Haven't you noticed that plants and animals do not retire, but work their entire lives?"--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
QUOTATIONS SCRIPTURE
"But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole."--Luke :50
"And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;"--Colossians 2:23
"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him."--Colossians 3:17
"For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat."--II Thessalonians 3:10
"For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God."--I Peter 2:20
Effort is Inescapable
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