We are all, no doubt, born for a wise purpose. There is as much diversity in our brains as in our countenances.
P. T. Barnum, Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
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Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. So far from being a curse, work is the greatest blessing.
Henry Ford, My Life and Work
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing…
Theodore Roosevelt, Address at the State Fair, Syracuse, N.Y.
Everything can always be done better than it is being done.
Henry Ford, My Life and Work
You must first know what people need, and then invest yourself where you are most needed.
Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds
…one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
…the best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise…
Andrew Carnegie, Wealth
Work is love made visible.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
What is Initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
Elbert Hubbard, Love, Life & Work
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
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I believe the true road to preëminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line.
Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Uncompromising integrity of character is invaluable. It secures to its possessor a peace and joy which cannot be attained without it—which no amount of money, or houses and lands can purchase.
P. T. Barnum, Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
Do your work with a whole heart and you will succeed—there is so little competition!
Elbert Hubbard, The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard