Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Father Quotes, Work Quotes

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

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

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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None but those who work are entitled to eat.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

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Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

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What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

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