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“Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”

“Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.”

Trying Work Alive Bed Ambition Cups Kitchen

Author:Dolly Parton

“I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed.”

Long Dream Young Lying Stars Work Fire Bed Aging Blow Motherhood Seeds Dawn Blink Flicker

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.”

Writing Form Work Bed Warm Officials Unimportant Dissatisfaction Clerks

Author:W. H. Auden

“I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”

“Never get out of bed before noon.”

Work Bed Retirement Noon Funny Retirement

Book:Hollywood

Source: Hollywood

“Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”

Life Inspirational Funny Work Money Business Bed Humorous Making Money Inaction Get Money Funny Money Funny Business Makin Money

Author:George Burns

“In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.”

Thinking Way Kind Desire Passion Work Steps Morning Fields Bed Spring Commitment Excellence Self Confidence Genuine Performers Unwavering Passion For Excellence Spring In Your Step

Author:James C. Collins

“At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."”

Men Firsts Light Work Bed Rising Readiness

Author:Marcus Aurelius