Favorite Quotations ~  Work, 3 True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do

"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish." ~ J.R.R.Tolkien

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Work needs to fit our personalities, just as shoes need to fit our feet. ~ Marsha Sinetar, Do What You Love

Work itself is the reward. If I choose challenging work it will pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested even if nobody else is. And this attempt for excellence is what sustains the most well-lived and satisfying, successful lives. ~ Meryl Streep

Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness. ~ Lisa Belkin, Life's Work

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you. ~ Margaret Bourke-White

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun? ~ Katharine Graham

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ~ Henry Ford

A job should not become a life sentence. ~ Ronald L. Krannich

Don't expect others to do your work for you. ~ William Safire

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. ~ Aldous Huxley

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