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Lady Godiva

Thu, Oct 29 2009, 11:21 am

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

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

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

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

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.
-Helen Keller

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Alva Edison

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
-Thomas Jefferson

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 Lombardi

sunshine!

Thu, Oct 29 2009, 11:29 am

Abraham Lincoln:
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
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.

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

Lena Horne:
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Rita Mae Brown:
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Thomas Alva Edison:
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Winston Churchill:
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

sunshine!

Thu, Oct 29 2009, 11:34 am

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

GoodEnough

Thu, Oct 29 2009, 11:38 am

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. "
--Albert Einstein

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. "
--Albert Einstein

"The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. "
--Ralph Waldo Emerson