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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Trying a Hundred times is far better than giving up; for by trying you may have a chance left but by not trying you don’t leave a chance.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia].

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

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

It takes only a second to destroy a work of a lifetime.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.