“Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.” LongActionSpiritWorkUniversalPoisonTireTravellerVigorArteriesNimble Book:Love's Labor's Lost Source: Love's Labor's Lost
“As long as you're working, you stay young.” LongYoungWorkAgingOld AgeGrowing Old Author:George Burns
“You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.” IfsLongRealSometimesRunningHurtWorkWonderfulHonestWillingCommittedDisappointmentWork OutLong RunsSpouseHonest With YourselfWonderful Experience Author:Hillary Clinton
“The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.” WellsLongHardSuccessWinningEasyWorkStruggleShareSweetDisappointmentFlightAfrican AmericanWinnerCivil Rights MovementDisengagementLong Jump Author:Roy Wilkins
“A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.” IfsThinkingMenWayNeedsFeelsPersonsLongFoundWorkDangerGoes OnSafeFormulasBetter WaysDeterioratingFound The One Book:Conversations with Eugene O'Neill Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
“All civilized people see the day beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or whatever time their work begins; this they lengthen according to their work, during what they call 'all day long'; and end it when they close their eyes. It is they who say the days are long. On the contrary, the days are round.” PeopleLittlesLongEndsEyeWorkLong TimeRoundsContraryDawnCivilized Author:Jean Giono
“There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.” MenGivingLongWorkFourWeightMiserableProportionSquaresSixteenBearableLevers Book:Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot