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 world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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Work, work, work, is the main thing.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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I am always for the man who wishes to work.

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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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