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Toil is the true knight's pastime. See quote detail

Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of Labor by Capital, or of Capital by Labor; and also that there should be no stifling of Labor by Labor, or of Capital by Capital.

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

We work to become, not to acquire.

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done.

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

When I stop [working], the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.


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