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“Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.”

Men Inspiration Motivational Action Motivation Work Positive Draws Enthusiasm Wages

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.”

People Men Mind Parent Sides Born Natural Work Wealth Conditions Honest Labor Democratic Notion Every Man Hereditary

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The right man can make a good job out of any job.”

Men Jobs Work Good Job Right Man

Author:William Feather

“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

“Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.”

“Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?”

Men Giving Firsts May Doe Young Asks Work Known Genius Promise Clever Young Man Great Men Laziness Clever Man

Book:The Two Paths

Source: The Two Paths

“Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.”

Men Enough Character Work Fewer Idle

Author:E. V. Lucas

“Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.”

Men God Faith Given Religious Work Grace Saint Dues Justification Wages Spiritual Gifts

Author:Hilary of Poitiers

“Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.”

Men Work Fit Hunger Companion Idle

Author:Hesiod

“If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.”

Ifs Men Given Work Chastisement Insolent

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.”

Men Literature Work Haste

Author:Aeschylus

“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.”

Men Feels Doe Work Acting He Man No Fear Have No Fear

Author:Sophocles

“Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.”

Men Hard Work He Man

Author:Kin Hubbard

“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