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Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.
- Paulo Coelho
If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
- Paulo Coelho
You worked so hard to achieve. It blinds us to everything else, to the moments we've joyfully experienced, to happy times and the bonds created during those occasions. How is it that hatred?
- Paulo Coelho
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
- Toni Morrison
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
- Francois Rabelais
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for thou out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, for dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
- John Milton
He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
And thus we understand, how the Whole of our Redemption (according to the plain language of Scripture) is inwardly and outwardly solely the Work of the Light and Spirit of God, a Kingdom of God both within and without us, and to which we do not, cannot live, but so far as we are inspired, moved, and led, by the Spirit of God.
- William Law
Choose reality, Sarah. It's the only place where strength and faith can begin to work.
- Cindy Woodsmall
There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.
- Coco Chanel
I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.
- Herbert Hoover
There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.
- Herbert Hoover