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"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."

Norman Douglas on Work

More quotes about Work

  • "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

    Confucius on Work

  • "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work

  • "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

    Thomas A. Edison on Work

  • "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

    Robert Frost on Work

  • "Nothing will work unless you do."

    Maya Angelou on Work

More quotes by Norman Douglas

  • "You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

  • "Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."

  • "Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

  • "There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

  • "There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

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