The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets out of it, but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin
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on Work The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets out of it, but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin |
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The best prize life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt Work is love made visible. Anon. It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. Thomas Carlyle The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl Buck Inspiration comes from working every day Charles Baudelaire Do our work with your whole heart, and you will succeed. There is so little competition. Elbert Hubbard Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset man. Thomas Carlyle The best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt If my life had been made up of eight hour days, I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal. Thomas Edison The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach, American Writer It is work that gives flavor to life. Henri Frederic Amiel Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Choose a job you love, and you will never have t work a day in your life. Confucius It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. Ashley Montagu, Anthropologist The very first chapter of the Book of Genesis, is also in a sense the first gospel of work. For it shows what the dignity of work consists of: it teaches that man ought to imitate God, his creator, in working because man alone has the unique characteristic of likeness of God. Man ought to imitate God both in working and also in resting, since God Himself wished to present His own creative activity under the form of work and rest. John Paul II
Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that
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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Your work should be a challenge, not a chore; a blessing, not a bore.-- Hal Stewins Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri Frederic Amiel Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius (551-479 BC) |