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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

 

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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.

 

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

 

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When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

 

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It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.



Edward Kennedy:

 

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The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

 

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What is—"Paradise"—
Who live there—
Are they "Farmers"—
Do they "hoe"—
Do they know that this is "Amherst"—
And that I—am coming—too—

 

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The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

 

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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.



Frederick Douglass:

 

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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

 

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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.



Helen Keller:

 

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I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

 

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

 

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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

 

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The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.

 

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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good

 

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

 

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If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

 

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Always be smarter than the people who hire you.



Lou Erickson:

 

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Gardening requires lots of water -- most of it in the form of perspiration.