“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”
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“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”
“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.”
“It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.”
“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”
“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.”
“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
“If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.”
“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”
“It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.”
“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
“We work to become, not to acquire.”
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
“Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.”
“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”