QUICK CHECK:
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you 
didn’t.   —Martin VanBuren
Do all you can to help boys and girls discover 
the joy of work.  It is while we are young that the 
habit of work is formed.  If not then, it never is 
afterwards.   —Thomas Jefferson
Work gives you an appetite for your meals, it 
lends peace to your slumber, it gives you a perfect 
appreciation of a holiday.  —Charles Gow
The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.
   —William Matthews
If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you 
do it well, you will enjoy it.   —Sydney Smith
Work keeps away three great evils: boredom, vice 
(bad habits); and need.   —Voltaire
1.    Why does success come before work in the 	
dictionary?  	
2.    Lombardi:  What is the price we must pay for 	
success?	
3. Harvey:  What should you do if you don’t like 	
what you do?	
4. Leacock:  What does hard work brings to a 
 person?
5. When are you in danger of becoming 
 successful?
6.	 Osler:		 What	is	the	first	step	toward	success	in		
any job?	
7. VanBuren:  What is the easier thing to do?
8. Jefferson:  When is the habit of work formed?
9. Gow:  What 3 things does work give you?
10.  Smith:  a) What will happen if you neglect 	
your work?  b) What will happen if you do your 
work well?	
11. Voltaire: List 3 evils work keeps away.
12. a) Which quote do you like?  b) Give a reason 	
for your choice.	
The dictionary is the only place that success comes 
before work.  Hard work is the price we must pay 
for success.  I think you can accomplish almost 
anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
   —Vince Lombardi
Like what you do.  If you don’t like it, do something 
else.    —Paul Harvey
I like work.  It fascinates me.  I can sit and look at it 
for hours.      —Jerome Jerome
No man goes before his time — unless the boss 
leaves early.     —Groucho Marx
I	am	a	great	believer	in	luck;	and	I	find	the	harder	I	
work, the more I have of it.   —Stephen Leacock
If	you	find	yourself	looking	forward	to	Mondays	
more than Fridays, be careful.  You are in danger of 
becoming successful.           —Anonymous
There is no future in any job.  The future lies in the 
person who holds the job.  —George W. Crane
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy.  When work 
is duty, life is slavery.    —Maxim Gorky
The	very	first	step	toward	success	in	any	job	is	to	
become interested in it.         —William Osler	
Thoughts—Jobs
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