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“If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.”

Ifs Night Dies Work Friday Roaring Thursday Friday Night

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.”

“Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).”

People Believe Happens Motivational Dies Stuff Waiting Realizing Work Money Starting Things Happen Fulfillment Satisfying Paychecks

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills Ends Past Dies Father Work Alive Son Medicine Retiring Desks

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.”

Ifs Way Stills Dies Causes Work Engaged Supposing Zion

Author:John Taylor

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

Source: You learn by living

“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”

“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

Inspirational Soul Dies Passion Work Inspire Rotten Stifling Meaningful Work Soulless Work You Love Work Love

Author:Albert Camus

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”

“A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.”

Dies Work Known Champion Overwork

Author:Robert Frost

“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

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.”

“No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.”

Men World Hands Dies Waiting Born Work He Man Arms Tools Tasks Blessed Busy Occasions Toil Horny Errands

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell