"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Work, Beliefs

"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Work, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Responsibility

"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."

John Irving, American Novelist

Work, Preparation, Planning, Writing, Observation

"Speaking about work isn't working."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Action, Procrastination, Efficiency

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."

Henry Miller, American Author

Work, Communication

"I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Work, Fans, Talking, Want

"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Work, Act, Creation, Eyes

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

Work, Development, Growth, Effort

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Work, Feeling, Man, Sense

"The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Work, Blessings, Success, Faith

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"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."

Growth

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."

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"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

Man

"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."

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"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."

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"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind."

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"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."

"Speaking about work isn't working."

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."

"I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it."

"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

"The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!"

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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."

"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."

"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."

"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."

"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind."

"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."