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- Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
- Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
- Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967)
- 'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
- J. A. Spender
- When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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