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Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

– Robert Bringle

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

– Polish Proverb

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

– Cato the Elder

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

– Romare Beardon

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

– Florence Shinn

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

– Florence Scovel Shinn

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

– William Ellery Channing

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

– Commitment To Excellence

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

– Samuel Butler

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

– Charles Buxton

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

– William Hazlitt

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.

– Nancy Parker Brummett

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

– George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

– D. H. Lawrence

Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.

– Jason Mraz

Funny business, a woman's career the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

– Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.

– John Alexander Smith, Speech to Oxford University students, 1914

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

– Walt Disney

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

– Elbert Hubbard

Give yourself something to work toward--constantly.

– Mary Kay Ash

Goal achievement is hero's work.

– Earnie Larsen

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

– Dr. Dale E. Turner

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