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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another.
Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it's a choice.
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.
We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.
A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.
Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it.
If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youve made too much of it, to remember it doesnt define you.
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community
While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.