Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well.
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Helen Keller
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
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Henry Ford
"Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."
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Thomas McGuane
"After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.
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Charles Kingsley
"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth."
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Sigmund Freud
"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
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Margaret Fontey
"The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous."
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Charles Caleb Colton
"The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."
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Elizabeth T. King
"I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort."
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