"No man ever did or can do a great work alone."
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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"Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all."
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"IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'"
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"Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one."
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"Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other."
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"Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses"
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"A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work."
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"To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against."
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"The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery."
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"Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work."
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"Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone."
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"In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made."
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"Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work."
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"The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest."
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"... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them."
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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
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"A work of real merit finds favor at last."
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"If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands."
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"All work is an act of philosophy."
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