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- The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
- Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
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