"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

Work, People, Sea, Want

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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Do the good work, with the resources you have."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Work, Good, Resources, Life

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work."

Richard Dean Anderson, American Actor

Work, Change, Father, Baby

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Work, Butler, Writer, Mind

"Be a worthy worker and work will come."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Work, Worth, Effort, Success

"We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

Work, Improvement, Compassion, Awareness

"To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Work, Happiness, Power, Truth, Life

"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Work, Purpose, Gift, Investment

"The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given."

Jose Serrano, American Politician

Work, People, Country, Grandparents

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"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."

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"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."

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"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

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"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."

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"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."

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"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."

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"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."

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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

"Do the good work, with the resources you have."

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"

"Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work."

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

"Be a worthy worker and work will come."

"We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity."

"To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight."

"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given."

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"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."

"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."

"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"It's hard luck always having to be a judge."

"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."

"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."

"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."