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 Quotable Quotes Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe. - St. Theresa of Lisieux
No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.- Booker T. Washington
Early to bed, early to rise, Work like hell: fertilize. - Emily Whaley, Charleston, N.C.
Work is love made visible. - Khalil Gibran
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.- Sun Tzu
Even if you are on the right track you will still get run over if you just sit there.- Will Rogers
All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little. - Lafcadio Hearn
No sweat, no sanctification.- Russ Gaippe
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises.
The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving. - Mahatma Gandhi There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan
It is better to wear out than to rust out. - Bishop Richard Cumberland
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. - Alan Watts, Work as Play
Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice. - Dhammapada, Sayings of the Buddha, Pali Cannon
Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not. - Jerry Baker
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser
Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep.- Ancient Egyptian proverb Life comes before literature, as the material comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. - Phillips Brooks
Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring, our effectiveness, our responsiveness. As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others. These qualities of caring and responsiveness are the greatest gift we can offer. - Tarthang Tulku
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, or even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. - Paul Hawken
Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. - Liz Smith
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. - Mirabel Osler
For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose. - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest. - Apples of Gold
When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in
letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard taskmasker to yourself -- and be lenient with everybody else. - Henry Ward Beecher
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country. - Don Marquis
A person who loves his or her work
Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest. - Jeff Cox The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. - Robert Louis Stevenson
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi
It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop. - Confucius When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. - Shunryu Suzuki
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. - Geoffrey Norman
A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. - Robert J. McKain
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. - Swami Sivananda
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Anonymous
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I work in the garden. - John Erskine
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau
If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done. - Murphy's Laws
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg. - Anonymous
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. - Edward Phelps
It is far easier to start something
Than it is to finish it. - Amelia Earhart It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy - the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted. - Author Unknown
The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing. - William Barclay
It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about ? - Henry David Thoreau
Orare est laborare, laborare est orare.
To pray is to work, to work is to pray. - Benedictine Order Motto Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. - Anonymous
It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done - pruning, weeding, transplanting, mulching, composting, tagging. When I was doing the work myself, I was happy, free. - Jay Neugeboren
Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. - Lou Erickson
The more help a man has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. - William M. Davies
Compiled By : T.A. Ramesh (India)
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