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• To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

  Frederick E. Crane

  Men, Hands, Effort

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• Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.

  Arthur Miller

  Happy, Trust, Communication

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Happiness, Business

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Despair, Boring, Amusing

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• Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

  Will Rogers

  Effort, Way, Plans

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.107, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

  Zig Ziglar

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Odds

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.27, AudioInk

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• He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

  Henry Ford

  Effort, Benefits, Mankind

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• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hard Work, Effort, Would Be

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

  Clive James

  Effort, Done, Honest

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• The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

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• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  Earl Nightingale

  Funny, Work, Humor

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• Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Work, Artist, Men

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• Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Gambling, Luck

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.282, Library of America

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• If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Business, Work

  The Note Book (1927)

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• The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

  John F. Kennedy

  Work, Believe, Men

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• Much effort, much prosperity.

  Euripides

  Meaningful, Effort, Literature

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The greatness of work is inside man.

  Pope John Paul II

  Greatness, Men, Inside Man

  Pope John Paul II, Jerzy Peterkiewicz (1982). “Collected poems”, Random House Inc

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• There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

  Moliere

  Effort, Honor, Rewards

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• Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Keys, Effort, Awareness

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• Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Sweat, Effort, Wages

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• The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Hands, Effort, Unseen

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• Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

  John Locke

  Effort, Desire, Labor

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.

  Ted Nugent

  Home, Land, Apples

  "Ted Nugent Interview: Our First American Rock and Roll President?". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockmusicwriter.com. August 4, 2013.

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• Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Work, Effort, Relax

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