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Find meaning and motivation in your career with powerful work quotes from achievers who understood the value of purpose-driven effort and craftsman's dedication.

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“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“From labor there shall come forth rest.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed.”

— John Milton

“It is of the nature of man, when he is not diseased, to take pleasure in his work under certain conditions.”

— William Morris

“The busy have no time for tears.”

— Lord Byron

“Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”

— John Ruskin

“Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”

— William Penn

“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”

— Cesare Pavese

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.”

— George Eliot

“But what is your duty? What the day demands.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“You must practise diligently in order to understand how to win.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus—it moves stones, it charms brutes.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!”

— William Shakespeare

“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”

— Mark Twain

“Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness?”

— Albert Einstein

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”

— Winston Churchill

“Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”

— Winston Churchill

“Public Disputes warm the Imagination, whet the Industry, and strengthen the natural Abilities.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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