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We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed. (Quote by - Ivy Baker Priest)

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. (Quote by - Galen)

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. (Quote by - Robert Half)

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)

Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust. (Quote by - Vijey Christopher)

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake, but as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. (Quote by - Mary Ellen Chase)

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing. (Quote by - Penelope Lively)

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)

I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. (Quote by - Helena Rubinstein)

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life. (Quote by - Barbara Walters)

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. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work. (Quote by - Kathleen Winsor)

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)

In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you never know where it may lead. (Quote by - Julia Morgan)

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. (Quote by - James Howell)

Busy people are never busybodies. (Quote by - Ethel Watts Mumford)

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together. (Quote by - Meridel Le Sueur)

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned; Him with the woodman's axe that thrills The wilderness profound. (Quote by - Benjamin Hathaway)

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