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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

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

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843

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

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey, Bossypants, 2011

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Unknown

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide, 1759

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps