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Quotes on Work
2007/12/20,11:38


I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

 Helen Keller Thanks to abf.org - Helen Keller

The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -- "Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.

- Rudyard Kipling

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

- Thomas Jefferson                                     

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

- - Vaclav Havel


Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

- Thomas Alva Edison

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tribute to the authors, for living their quotes and leaving it to us to use.

Thanks to www.wisdomquotes.com for the online version of the quotes.

Thanks to www.afb.org for the image of Helen Keller. Thanks to Wikpedia for all other images.

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