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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
- Stephen Covey
Start before you're ready.
- Steven Pressfield
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.
- Thomas Monson
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
- Victor Hugo
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
- Victor Hugo
He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
- William Hazlitt
Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
- Will Rogers
Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.
- Gordon Hinckley
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
- George Bernard Shaw
I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.
- George Bernard Shaw
I do have investments, investments in new jobs, investments in education, skill training, and the opportunities for people to get ahead and stay ahead. That's the kind of approach that will work.
- Hillary Clinton