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Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.
Sep 18, 2025
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.
You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
We put our love where we have put our labor.
Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim to becoming a project, from being a "skunk works" effort to becoming an official, mainstream effort, from being an unfounded program to a funded process, and so on.
Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.
The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.
Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Much effort, much prosperity.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
We work to become, not to acquire.
The harder I work the more I live.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.