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Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

no job is a good job if it isn't good for you.

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be present with him; if he but love it--always assuming that his conscience approves--it brings an abounding satisfaction.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.