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- To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
- Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
- The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
- Robert Collier
- God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
- Wilberforce
- Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
- James Goldsmith
- One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.
- C. C. Colton
- Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.
- X. Doudan
- It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
- William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
- A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.
- Albert Cooper
- It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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