Our 2016 Nova Scotia summer vacation has ended and now back to work…. So, what better way to ease into our first day back than to comb through bons mots on “work”. Here are a dozen favourites:
- The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. – Arnold Toynbee
- Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt
- There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford
- Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. – Albert Camus
- We work to become, not to acquire. – Elbert Hubbard
- Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. – Booker T. Washington
- No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. – Antonio Porchia
- The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. – Elbert Hubbard
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. – Peter Drucker
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
- I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson
- You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. – Author Unknown
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