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• Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Effort, Too Much

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.812, Delphi Classics

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

  Frederick E. Crane

  Men, Hands, Effort

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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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• 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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• Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back'!

  Dale Archer

  Jobs, Giving Up, Kids

  "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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

  Earl Nightingale

  Funny, Work, Humor

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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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• 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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• The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.

  Arthur Melvin Okun

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Strong

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• Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

  Winston Churchill

  Class, Two, Effort

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• The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Effort, Littles

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.197, Bantam Classics

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• When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Effort, Grows

  John Ruskin (1871). “Works. (Author's Ed.)”, p.59

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• Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim to becoming a project, from being a "skunk works" effort to becoming an official, mainstream effort, from being an unfounded program to a funded process, and so on.

  John Kao

  Organization, Ideas, Effort

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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