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Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

Little things affect little minds.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

Make good use of bad rubbish.

Management must manage!

Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

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.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.