“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?”
Source: Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin
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“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
Source: At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
Source: Dickinson
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
“What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.”
Source: A Whole New Life
“The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.”
“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”
Source: Meditations
“Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.”
“We work to become, not to acquire.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
“Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.”
“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Source: Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen
“It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”
Source: The Young Man Entering Business
“I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”
“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.”
“I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.”
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
Source: You learn by living
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”