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Work Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might…
- It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from…
- I am always for the man who wishes to work.
- Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
- Work, work, work, is the main thing.
- If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to…
- Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
- Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,…
- Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his…
- Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation…
- Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
- The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us…
- If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office,…
- The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for…
- It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose…
- Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all…
- This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
- Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first…
- I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
- With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on…
- Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example…
- My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
- My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read,…
- If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
- I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach