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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
?UnattributedOften credited to Confucius
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
The 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.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
- Success
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Plato429–349 BC
- Men
- Women
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack (1737)
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Indira Gandhi1917–1984
I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Success
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost1874–1963
I would rather be a failure doing something I love than be a sucess doing something I hate.
George Burns1896–1996
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Émile Zola1840–1902
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Danse Macabre (1981).
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919A Square Deal (1903)