Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
- Topic: Action, Work
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More Quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
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I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
