Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Work Quotes, Men Quotes

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

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There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Work Quotes , Hands Quotes

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

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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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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

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Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Work Quotes , Character Quotes

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

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

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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

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I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

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