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Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life.

Let us cultivate our garden.

— Voltaire

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work.

— W. B. Yeats

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

— Mother Teresa

All mothers are working mothers.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

— Henry Ford

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do.

— Virgil

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

He has gained every point who has combined the useful with the pleasant.

— Horace

Work is love made visible.

— Khalil Gibran

Action expresses priorities.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun at home as his wife thinks he does at the office.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

— Voltaire

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

— Thomas Edison

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

— Samuel Johnson

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

— W. B. Yeats

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

— Albert Schweitzer

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy.

— Lee Iacocca

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

— Abraham Lincoln

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

— Plato

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